I wish success was
a land; like the promised land where 'all our tears would be wiped out, where
we would find joy and peace and where there would be no troubles any more'. But
that is only a wish, and what more, do I really NEED to succeed?
Our parents and the
people of our society tell us to 'go to school, study hard, so that we can find
a good job, and eventually have a good family.' And that is to them what I
think is a road-map to success. It is a phrase that could arguably be a summary
of what soceity has for all its existence been habitually inclined to live by.
And its factual reasons not-withstanding, it is the department through which
all part of society has been made, from law-making, medical care, construction
to merchandizing, agriculture and artistry endeavours (which preserves all
society).
Narrowing it down
to an indivualistic perspective, I think every human being with a sound mind at
some point need to have something in there lives. We are brought up not equal
but in need. And one only knows the need only when one needs it. It therefore
goes that first the individual has to have a goal. A definite major goal. A
goal which they so desire to achieve that everything less is subservient.
Some people want
money, others fame, others want names say in their professionalism and still
others want love, sex or romance, career success and/or self-fulfillment. These
goals mentioned are all positive, not to insinuate there are no negative goals.
These come along in the name of getting what is positive. Men have lied in
order to gain love, yet others have killed and in seach for sexual fulfillment,
done things that only lowered them down to the level of a beast. This all in
the name of success.
But here comes a
question, Is there really success in doing what hurts other people in order to
achieve whatever it is that you want to achieve? And is there a way in which
you can really get what you need without as much an effort?
And to these
success involves itself in a harmonial balance among the subjects involved.
Good success requires that one succeeds without harming or violating other
people's rights. And there could always be an opposite only it comes with its
consequences.
There is no such a
thing as something for nothing. There has to be an effort, no matter how
little.
Perhaps Cheril L.
Smith's book From Broken Pieces to a Full
Basket has it all when a parallel is drawn from the tale of the race
between the fast and clever hare and the prodding tortoise who eventually wins
the day, not, of course, for his (tortoise's) misdemeanor but because of his
undying PERSISTENCE. The lesson is clear, success is a process and sometimes
you think you have succeeded only to see another horizon. Victory belongs not
to the fastest but to the one who does not give up.
