Success...
Something you always aspire to, something you've always dreamed of, something for which you would live all your life, and at times, for a few, is something for which you go to any end, lose everybody, and everything else. Nirvana.
Success can also take forms. It might mean money to a few, fame to a few others, revenge for even a few, faith for a few sects, and so on. Everybody dreams of his definition of success and longs to gain it. It would be an easily achievable task at times, and might be a daunting task at others. It depends of what we dream of.
The whole point of this writing is to ascertain that success in itself does not mean the end result. Success is not the destination itself, but also includes the way you take to arrive at it. As it is said, 'if you win the whole world, and lose yourself, what's the point?', success is just not what you experience at the end. Everything which comes on that path to success is part of it, even failures. Just like we cant admire the sun if there was no night, and can't admire health if we were not sick, success does not taste sweet if there was no failure. So, failures play a big role in the success. Take failures as challenges and don't fail in the same way again. You fail and fail yet again till there is no other way to fail, you would reach success.
You could enjoy all the riches and joy at the end of the road, but if you take all your life to reach there, what is the point? Since there is no shortcut to success, we would all reach it only very late in our lives. By then we would have lived all the young and energetic days of our lives. What difference does it make to you if the whole world is under you at that age where you cannot do anything but feel happy. You cannot run, cannot eat everything you like, cannot yell, cannot live life to fullest. Success at a later stage is similar to that.
So, instead of losing all happiness and good things around while you strive to be successful, take joy at life's each small thing. Life is full of surprises, let's not indulge ourselves a lot into the struggle that we don't care about these small moments. A moment once lost can never come back, so let's trudge of in our path of success even while having fun and lighter moments. Those moments would give you immense joy and contentment even if you had not achieved success.
After all, success is a feeling!
About Me
- dileep
- Inexplicable I would say. The description changes with each facet of life. Guess the following says most about me: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than sucesses, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes
3 comments:
Yet another good post by my "ranchod das"..
I would like to add few quotes which are relevant to this post.
Happiness should found along the way not at the destination. By then the journey is over.
Don't try for success. Try for perfection.. success follows - 3 idiots
I also wish to know the inspiration for this post. what makes you write this blog at this age.. in fact, its not an easy thing to understand the success at this phase of life.. so many wasted their whole lives just to taste a moment of success. Instead they could have tried enjoying their journey too.
Hmmm. The inspiration is from many small things.
But I must say a very important thing here. When I decide to achieve something, I give up everything. For me the goal is the only thing on earth. But, since we are social beings, we cannot live by ourselves. We're surrounded by emotions. And a moment lost is lost forever. And there would be only very few special moments and special timing for any moment. My idea is not losing out on those moments while being focused on goal. We'd later feel that we should have been part of that moment/celebration. For instance achieving something at work is as important as being happy at home. You get the first but don't get the second, you still cannot enjoy the first. Life is a balance among all these things (work, relationships, ..). And that's the inspiration for this blog.
hmm...good to see you finding time to write again :)
but aren't you contradicting yourself....success isn't the end but something that you find through the journey itself...in that case why we be old to attain it??? hehe
and as i see it goals keep changing all the time...i wanted to be a lawyer when i was a kid...that doesn't mean i am not happy now...
but i do agree at the end its the attitude that forms the experience...
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