Own definition

Figure 1: My heart is so far away.

How often do you think of life on Earth? If there is a possibility for the next life or is it just the end of it once your last breath leaves your body. Of all the things we want in this life, we want success. That is the ultimate satisfaction, but what is it anyway?

Failure is a disappointment to us and gives a bad impression of people around us. So what is success? Is it about becoming rich? Or is it about following the footsteps of great people or what the great motivator just said in his awesome speech?

If that is the definition of success, I would be the most failed person in this world. I hate to live up to one's unreasonable and sky-high expectations. So I believe that success is within each and one of us. Success is about moderation.

These are a few points which shows how successful we are,

i. Successfully born into this world, around 1 million babies die the day they were born.

ii. Success that we have no infirmities or abnormalities. Imagine, Nick Vujicic, a great motivator, who has no arms or legs, is currently motivation people around the world who have perfect body.

iii. Successfully completing our studies, while people around, this was stated that, nearly 1 billion people in this world entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

iv. Successfully get work, according to statistics almost 300 million youths are unemployed in the whole world, this doesn't include the adults yet.

v. Successfully eat three times a day, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) states that 870million people go hungry and one in eight suffer from chronic undernourishment.

vi. Succesfully be one as a family, we have our loved ones, to be able to be together with them and even though far away we still be able to communicate via phone and have air travel to meet up with them.

vii. Success in able to wake up early in the morning to pray and give thanks to God. I am thankful everyday I wake up and see the beautiful sunrise as well as the sunsets.

viii. Success to freely go and worship God. I am thankful that I can go to church on a Sabbath day and praise God while people in oppressed countries are unable to do that and are struggling to do it in hiding with risk of capture and torture.

My point is, we are all successful people in our own ways, not everyone is good regarding academics but that is not an excuse not to do your best because who knows? Never discourage anyone attempting to better himself or herself in any type of skills or knowledge.

Success is everyday but we never realize it. Be thankful and always give thanks, but most of all always pray. Success has been twisted by book writers so that their books can be bestseller because people buy it over and over again due to never achieving it. Success is never about material things.

Success is about doing our very best. When sad times comes, be sad. When we are happy, be the happiest. There is always time for everything. Remember one day has only 24 hours, live it with a kind, honest and humble heart.

Success is not asking for riches when in poverty nor asking for health when in illness. Success is to be able to praise God in whatever condition we are in. Just like Job in the Holy books. Never measure success in the form of money.

Money is a form of exchange. Money has its value as our time spent in doing work. So we are buying our assets using our time. Remember how many years it takes to work our asses out to finally buy a house. That is life and also life's fatamorgana.

Last but not least, always remember, to never exchange your precious time for these material things, but do spend your time with the people you love, your family. Life is so short. Life is so valuable.