Like a lot of other things in life, success is also abstract. What success means to one , does not necessarily mean the same thing to another. We all know that and probably have come to terms with that. (There are cases when one has to "succeed" in the eyes of another person - a child has to do something so as to be acknowledged as successful in the parents' eyes or an employee in manager's eyes or in Indian culture, parents have the peer or social pressure to do certain things to be branded successful parents - bringing up the child and make them successful people in the eyes of the society, and like marrying their wards off etc. But then this is an entirely different arena.)
Having said that the term 'success' has an evasive meaning that differs from eye to eye, how often do we realize the meaning ourselves? Are we smart enough to figure out we have grabbed the elusive golden apple? Or is it just a mirage and we keep running behind it? Is there no such thing as success? Is it purely psychological factor - to give man a hold in life so that he does not go 'astray'? (If success does not exist, then failure is non-existent as well . What a bliss that would be) Or is the notion of success formed so that people are held accountable for something when they live as a society? Why does the train of what needs to be succeeded at grows? I guess someone might as well do some research about success as it still seems to be an unexplored area.
Assuming 'success' exists, do we care enough to define success on our own terms? Do we even give it a thought apart from being materialistic or tactic? If living life on our terms means success, how many of us really succeed in life? Or is it considered a social failure? How is that we don't recognize success with as much clarity as we do with failure? How does one exactly feel like when he or she goes on doing thing without bothering to realize that he or she has just succeeded or failure? If the success of failure to make us learn better and fail better and finally achieve the so called goal, is there such a thing as failure of success?
Success or what?
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Really like the terms 'success of failure' and 'failure of success'... yes, it does exists...
Because Einstein failed in family life, Bharathi failed in making money, Gandhi - Father of the Nation - failed as father from his first son's perspective...
Another thing that I find very funny is all parents want their children to be the best... why do they stop progressing and becoming the best themselves after having children?... and look at the life of a man/woman... your first 20-25 yrs you learn so much and grow up and then rest of your life you want your children to learn and grow up... what are we doing with what we learnt?
I think 'life itself meaningless' how on the earth we define 'failure & success' :p
since 'life' is just an option, when we start with that as central theme, I think any thing that supports/improves life is success (happiness,friends, money, mental peace or integrity, confidence, critical thinking...etc all are somehow linked to sustaining the life).
Anything that is anti-life is failure :)
simple huh :) ?
Do what you feel good. Forget the results. Easier said than done. There is no success or failure, it's all learning.
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