Success Does Not Always Mean Money

In the 21st century, faced with the forces of the modern-capitalism world, money has engendered for itself a great desire in the human mind to the extent that, it is being perceived as the sole measure for success. Usually, when we first hear of the word success, why does our mind always start contemplating about materialistic extraordinarily rich things?

It is a well conspicuous fact, the post-industrialization world we are living in, our minds have set in its default setting, picturing about mansions, exotic vehicles, etc, as and when the word ‘success’ is touched upon. Be it scissor-door wagons or sea-facing villas, people dream of it all. Pretty much looks like the definition of success has been replaced with our dreams of an ornate and luxurious lifestyle.

“What is success?”

This is a question that has been mulled over for a long time now. And to be honest, there is no precise answer to this question.

The Oxford dictionary defines success as “attainment of a goal wanted or hoped for.” The goal is such a word everyone should be cognisant with. To be true, everyone derives their own meaning out of success.

Figuring out one’s purpose is the key to becoming successful and happy.

Success is a moment, but what we are always celebrating is creativity and mastery. What gets us to convert success into mastery? This comes, when we begin embracing the near win. Success is a label that the world confers upon you.

But, I believe, success and failure is not always in the volumes of money flowing into your life, success is not dependent upon the recognition one is finding in the world. One is successful in life when one knows how to walk with joy through hell, when one knows how to feel about oneself when no one is around, a deep sense of fulfillment about what one is becoming and seeking from life.

Success is not a commitment to a goal, but to a constant pursuit. The pursuit of realizing one’s true potential, the pursuit of finding happiness in what one truly wants. One does not only achieve success over a span of years. There is success in every little goal one checks off the list.

What gets one to forward thrust more, is embracing that near win. The pursuit of mastery in other words, is an ever-onward almost. Success is in the journey, the learning.

It is in constantly wanting to close the gap, where one is and where one wants to be.

When one can actually actuate what one has through the relentless acquisition of skills, replenishes the individual with ‘techne’, with maximal potential and meaning in life.

Success thus can mean even feeling that prickle of exhilaration about what one does, sticking with what matters through adversities, living a life one can feel proud of, in retrospect.

A very wise man once said, “Find something you would die for and live for it.” When one finds that, one attains success, everyone is seeking hold of.

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