Success... What does it mean? According to the dictionary, the word means: the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. So you might say that you have had a successful day or you succeeding in washing of of the laundry. But what about when people talk about success in the context of somebody's whole life.
"Have they had a successful life?", "She is very successful". When you, I mean you reading this right now, when you read those what do you think of? I bet it's about how much money she has earned or how high in the ranks of her career she is, how famous she is? Well, can we really judge other people's success? If you think about it, each person's success is based the goals that they have set, and quite honestly we have no idea what goals people have set. I may class myself as successful because I have mastered the art of bread-making. Not the fact that I have earned 5 million dollars from the sales of my best-selling bread book.
Think about it. What do you want your life to truly be like? Is your main goal to be happy and what ever else happens is just a add-on? Then you are successful every time that you are happy. It sounds weird to think of yourself successful for having a smile on your face but that is what society has done to us. And no this is not a rant about society! But, traditions and what other people think are the things that influence us. That is society - the people around us.
Perhaps when people are asked what theirs aims are in life, they may say successful. Read that definition again. If success is the accomplishment of an aim, how can your aim be success? It doesn't make sense, does it? If you are feeling happy right now, then in my mind you are quite succesful.
What I want you to take from this is another perspective and re-evaluate your aims. Personally, I would like to help other people in any way that I can. My main aim being to help their diet and well-being and living a full life with family around them and happiness in abundance.
Thanks for reading and I hope it gave you something to think about.
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Shelby
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