To aim for the stars as it were. This breeds the question, if we could invent a success-meter, what would be its unit of calibration? Salary? Net worth? Neighbourhood? House size? Cellphone brand? Children’s school? Farm size? Brand of personal vehicle? Quite a good number of people are caught up in the raging maelstrom of the aforementioned illusive success factors. Businessmen and corporate executives alike! Do all these factors translate into true success? It would take a staggering degree of a tenuous relationship with the truth and harrowing intellectual indigence to respond in the affirmative. Reflect on people whose wealth has been whittled away. Most of them have long denounced the pedestrian definition of success. Forced to acknowledge that enduring success cannot be equated to wealth! Sadly, some of them, reeling from being deeply wounded by the world, were hit by the truism uttered by Margot Barber, “One day you’re a cock in the walk, the next a feather duster.”
The problem with defining success in tangible assets is that, such a narrow definition is bound to change with time. For instance, there was a time when not so much value was placed on farm ownership. Now, it happens to be the one thing that separates men from boys. We need to tread carefully in our definition of success. Would it not make more sense to define success in the context of happiness and fulfilment?
