What is Real Success?
Everyone wants success, and yet they often
don’t know when they have it.
For most, it is the maddening chase toward a better
way of life or more of something.
More fame, power, recognition, money, or material stuff.For some, it is the understanding of a loving partner, the love of their child, or the people that they can count on when life throws them a curve.
I am coming to believe that success is not more material wealth, but peace, happiness, contentment, and love.
Most of all love.
Real success is not to be sought after in the outer world, but discovered in your inner world. I am not condemning the stuff of life. We all want the things that life offers.
But we don’t need as much as we think we do.
Sooner or later you will discover that real success is friends, strangers,
and anyone who crosses our path.
It is kindness shared, support given and received, listening,
giving, and caring.
These will endure while your car rusts, your toys break, and you tire of the temporary gratifications that bring you what you think is real.
What matters is people.
What lasts is love.
What counts are true friends, and if you treasure these
you can count yourself a success.
July 13, 2008 at 7:02 am
I agree with a lot of things you said in this blog. A lot of people feel wealth and sucess is just making a lot of money alone. Good reading.
July 13, 2008 at 7:07 am
Well, I don’t completely agree.
Doesn’t mean I’m right though 
I am happy now. (I say happyness=success) And I’m happy because I’m doing something to reach my goals and dreams. I’ve never been so calm and at peace with myself as I am now. And I’m a lone wolf. I have friends, I like to communicate with people, but that’s not where I gain happyness from. But if you depend on other people then ,well, you ain’t gonna be happy, because here will always be people who will dislike you… So, in my opinion you overrate friends a bit
July 13, 2008 at 7:22 am
Great message
July 13, 2008 at 7:25 am
Well, I can certainly say that it’s great to have such people as you who is a stranger to you in real life to support you and give check in on you from time to time! I really appreciate that! But that’s like a bonus
We will see how life pans out though, maybe I’ll change my mind after some time!
Cheers
July 13, 2008 at 8:52 am
What a nice post. Thanks!
July 13, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I’m sorry, AfteraDream, but I have to disagree with you….about your definition of success. If my success was dependent on my happiness, then I’d be successful one minute and not the next. You may mean joy, which is not an emotion, as happiness is, but is rather a state of being, which, I think, Melinda was writing about. Great discussion. Best of luck reaching all your goals!! (I hate the word "luck", because I think life is what one makes of it!)
July 13, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I definitely agree with the blog - experiences and the people you meet are priceless, especially the ones that you touch/affect and that touch/affect you!