We Have A Winner
The responses I received for the previous question were pretty lame. I was hoping someone would have given something very unique, but that did not happen.
I didn't like "eZ tRiXs"'s answer because it was too corny. I don't believe successful people look at themselves in the mirror and get lost in their own eyes, unless they are extremely cocky.
"the gipsy king" didn't give much of an answer, just a reference to the picture. Not valid.
"ForDaGrowNSexy"'s answer didn't make much sense. Is sin the only way you can be successful? Scratch that entry.
Arineh's answer was the most complete, considering all aspects of success and that it didn't take just one thing to be successful.
Anonymous's post was good until the ending. A "successful" company will never go under by definition. It can stop being successful, and therefore fail, but it will never be successful in the process of failure. "it is a goal, but not a destination." That part needs to be elaborated on to make sense, otherwise it is too vague to qualify.
I can't say I was blown away by the depth and creativity of the answers, but I do believe, from the entries submitted, there is one that is better than the rest. Congrats Arineh! I'll see if I'm allowed to give you cash while you're working. Otherwise, give me your address.
Skydive #4 went pretty well. I was a bit more nervous since I had not done it for 3 months and didn't remember all the procedures, but the landing was super soft and the flight in general was wonderful. I can't wait for my next jump (first week of January?)!
I Love You Araks.
rebirth...
I didn't like "eZ tRiXs"'s answer because it was too corny. I don't believe successful people look at themselves in the mirror and get lost in their own eyes, unless they are extremely cocky.
"the gipsy king" didn't give much of an answer, just a reference to the picture. Not valid.
"ForDaGrowNSexy"'s answer didn't make much sense. Is sin the only way you can be successful? Scratch that entry.
Arineh's answer was the most complete, considering all aspects of success and that it didn't take just one thing to be successful.
Anonymous's post was good until the ending. A "successful" company will never go under by definition. It can stop being successful, and therefore fail, but it will never be successful in the process of failure. "it is a goal, but not a destination." That part needs to be elaborated on to make sense, otherwise it is too vague to qualify.
I can't say I was blown away by the depth and creativity of the answers, but I do believe, from the entries submitted, there is one that is better than the rest. Congrats Arineh! I'll see if I'm allowed to give you cash while you're working. Otherwise, give me your address.
Skydive #4 went pretty well. I was a bit more nervous since I had not done it for 3 months and didn't remember all the procedures, but the landing was super soft and the flight in general was wonderful. I can't wait for my next jump (first week of January?)!
I Love You Araks.
rebirth...
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That's a really disturbing picture...it's great!
thanks arthur. =) -arineh
hehe, whoa, I had no idea I started a contest of success definitions.
Honestly, though, I didn't really like Arineh's answer. I mean it's a good answer, I just don't agree. I think my favorite was anonymous's.
Success can't include specific elements; the definition Arineh gave was totally subjective. It wouldn't apply to a zillion other people...or at least it wouldn't apply to everyone. For example, maybe some people like being lonely, and thus love would not make them feel successful. Hey, it's possible.
And also, I could see freedom of mind as in the freedom to believe what you want to believe being a part of success, but not being free from anger, fear, and guilt. Sometimes you need anger; feelings are necessary, sometimes an un-peaceful mind is necessary for success. For example, if a friend of yours murdered someone to rob their house, and you did nothing about it, didn't care, and weren't angry at them, would you feel very successful? Well, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't; I'd feel like a banana peel (I'm not sure why a banana peel, first thing that came to mind, I guess) who doesn't have an feelings at all and is a horrible person.
Also, you might be able get more satisfaction out of things if you're unhealthy. Often, when in the face of death, life becomes much better because it's about to be taken away from you. Thus being not healthy might highten your satisfaction of the successful things you've done.
And the last and most important thing (to me) is that I don't think money or financial freedom should affect success. I'll have to resort to that old cheesy saying, money doesn't buy you happyness. Often people who have all the material possessions they could ever want, all the money they could ever want, still have something missing. Maybe it's loneliness, as you say, but maybe it's something else, maybe they're just missing the thrill of life. Whatever, my point: money is shit.
Anyway, I don't mean to offend or anything, we just disagree on the definition of success.
The reason I liked anonymous's best was because it is more easily applyable to anyone and everyone; it doesn't really have requirements, or a checklist that you go through to say "Hey, man, It looks like I'm successful this year! Check it out, maan!! Look at me!" Success is when you're satisfied with everything that you and your life include. I could agree with that (and I don't agree with many things).Being able to say in the end, "I've had a successful life" shouldn't take an hour of going through specific elements, saying, "Financial Freedom...check, I could have bought any damn thing I wanted. Love...check, I got married and had wonderful kids all of whom I loved and all of whom loved me." No. It should take a second: "Am I satisfied with my life?" Yes or no, that's it.
I think by the thing about successful businesses going under, she/he (for some reason, I can picture this anonymous as being a she?) meant that success does not always remain success; it can turn to failure, which I could also agree with. Sometimes I feel happy with my life, and then within the time-frame of 12 hours, half a day, I could think, Damn I hate my life! I'm such a failure! This is what led to the thing about it's a goal but not a destination; you can aim for success, but there's not a single point where you've reached it, you have to keep trying.
The definition of success HAS to be vague since success is so specific to different people, it's practically impossible to make even gaping hugely vague generalizations about success since they have to incorporate the zillions of specific definitions, like Arineh's and people living in Papua New Guinea. I wonder what theirs would be..."Having the most potatoes in the tribe..." ....eeh...probably not
Anyway, I think definitions of success HAVE to be vague to qualify.
Sorry for writing so damn much, but I guess I do have the unspoken & unwritten right to answer to question that I posed...even though I'm not giving any specific answer, just responding to others....
soooo.....
yeeeah!
Wow, I didn't realize I wrote that much!
SOrrYY!
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