Notion of Success

   

The notion of success holds different meanings for different people and groups. Such meanings have changed and evolved over time. Actually, many propose that possessing abundance of money implies success. However, this view is rendered obsolete in the minds of those individuals who hold that one’s success cannot be measured strictly by money.

Material possession has been traditionally accepted as the measurement of one’s success or social status. When we initially refer to someone, we routinely mention how much money he owns and thereby believe this individual quite successful if he is wealthy. Besides, owning a lot of money is also related to one’s working ability and thus some people may simply consider money as a prime measurement of one’s success.

However, this view has changed recently since many people have come to recognize that money in many cases cannot bring happiness, heath and success. Success contemporarily means doing the things one perceives valuable to himself and beneficial to others. The winner of the Nobel Prize for peace may think he has achieved success although he is rewarded with little money. A person who loves animals and makes an effort to save animals that on a path of extinction may think he has gained success although he may have expended all of his money on his career.

Some individuals may also define success as being able to make artistic masterpieces that can be accepted by the public. For a composer, success may mean having his work praised by adoring fans as well as those who help the work spread all over the world. Similarly, holding an exhibition in a famous gallery may connote success for a painter.

In sum, people adhere to various concepts of success. Money surely cannot be the only measurement of success. Acquiring true happiness in life and attaining success means having the freedom and capability of doing what you enjoy and believing it to be valuable.

 

Source: WXHW