Success Means...

Saw a status of my friend from facebook today: What's the defination of success?

I suddenly have some thoughts in my mind about the meaning of this word.

Success has no meaning of ending. The most important thing is we have an aim or dream. Success is when we take our first step towards it. Success is by learning each step that you take. Success is living your life, to embark on the journey. To gain knowledge, to know what is good and what is not, to understand the place, the experience, the taste, the flavor, the beauty of it all. It is the ability to steer yourself to the aim; the dream. And to realize that what we have gained each step along the way, right or wrong, and learning from the experience is a success in itself.

As we move along the journey we call life, to fully appreciate each step we take. To be able to take in the moment, to not just move along like a zombie each day to achieve that aim/dream and forget to learn each step, to take in the moment, to appreciate the day, the beauty. To forget to learn from the experience that we took, to forget to grow out of the mistakes we've done, to neglect the basic needs of life itself. To forget to live. That's what some people call empty success, as one forgot to learn each experience in life. Success to me, is to be able to learn each step of the way, to remember how to live life, to experience what is there to experience, along each careful little step we take, and not lose aim of our dreams and aim. Dreams and aim could always slot in along the way as a filler to the ultimate aim/dreams. As we achieve all these filler dreams we should not forget to continue as this is not it yet.

So some people get their big cars, big house, big this and that along the way. Some people stop at these and think that this is their ultimate dream/aim. That they keep chasing this same dream that it might eat up their minds and forget to live as what they wish to want at the beginning. Big car or big house is just a symbolization of your status in this society. It's an improvement of your living but not success.

Action is the foundational key to all success. ~ Pablo Picasso