Wednesday, 18 January 2012

What is success?

Today, I came across this video and it got me thinking about success


If I listen around me I do hear success like this:
  • having a successful job which pays a lot - no matter if it is enjoyable or not
  • being the best - no matter what it takes to ourselves or the others
  • having a great family - no matter if we don't have the time to spend together cause we are working so much
  • having a beautiful/powerful branded car - no matter how long we stay stuck in traffic jams
  • being healthy, we would not want to lose any time by staying in bed
  • having a lot of money so it pays us flights to the other end of the world to a beach that we'll look from the swimming pool
  • having successful kids, that go to great schools, are causing no problems and soon to get married with someone with a really good situation
  • being good at sports
  • having numerous and cool hobbies

I mean, we all know that it is not true for most of us. But do we not all live a bit like this anyway?

However, should we not consider success as:
  • having a happily family, that we love and spend time with
  • having an interesting job for to which we are to go to in the morning
  • be as good as we can, even if we are not number one
  • having a mode of transport fast and respectful of the nature
  • being able to stay in bed 1 day to get over a cold and be efficient the next day and show the others can too
  • going on holidays with the family to somewhere we can be happy together, even if it is nearby swimming pool
  • having enough money to sustain us and our family decently
  • Doing sport because it is fun and makes us feel better - whatever the results
  • having hobbies that we like, even if it is gardening or walking in the forest
Would we not be more considerate for others and for our environment, would we not be happier?

What think?

Blue

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