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Definition Of Success Essay

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Success is like balance, tedious and differing, always needing adjustment to match a each differing situation. Balance is such a simple thing, yet people are so amazed by the feats it can achieve. Balance is a strange and untouchable thing, always wavering in the distance, never able to be reached. Balance is a mythical and miraculous thing that people are always trying to achieve, yet is so hard to get to. Just as is success. Success is simple and amazing, strange and incorrigible, mythical and miraculous. People always strive to reach success in their lives, to finally meet that end goal they were striving after so long. Both balance and success are goals people strive to achieve yet are so hard to get to. And each is just as subjective as the other. …show more content…

To me, success is a very personal and subjective thing and it cannot be measured by any other person. To one person, success may be all the money in the world, enough so he or she can bathe in it every night. Or, the person could want money so he or she can donate it to charity and help others. But, from the outside, the charitable person may look just as bad as the person of greed, people thinking both have fallen prey to their own desires. Both people consider themselves successes but both are considered failures by the outside eye. To me, there is no way of knowing how someone else thinks or what they are thinking. It is a childish whim to think someone can know what someone else believes, because lies exist. To everyone success is different, and to me, there is no way of knowing if someone else is successful, and if so, how? That is why I find no one

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