I am New to this!

Someone asked me this morning:
how do you define success? Is success tons of money in the bank and position in society - somebody else's perception where you get talked about in big society-do's or maybe written about in magazines as part of an elite statistic? In the process, how much do you compromise on time for yourself, or for the people you love, or live for?

I was thinking and so this blog came up.

Success is to achieve what you want to achieve. It could just be 2 square meals and lots of time to do nothing or it could be 80 hour weeks and a million dollars growing in your name. It could be betterment of the society you live in or a combination of it all. I believe I am rich and fairly successful since I am happy with what I have. You may think otherwise. Relativity and Change are two things you need to keep in mind when you define success. My mother is possibly the most successful in my eyes because she raised us well and devoted herself so much to the concept of family. She made the future a bright place for so many people by making sure her children were good human beings. In her view, she failed because she did not make any use of her musical talent. So, both of us view her success or the lack of it differently.

I know by every yardstick of society I am not a successful human being but maybe this is all I want out of life. I might change the view 20 years later, who knows and frankly does it really matter at all?

If I can sleep at night knowing that I did not harm anybody today and I spent the day constructively, I think I have then earned the right to live. (Even if it was just a constructive Holiday spent watching movies)

To sum up, I don't measure success on a pre defined scale. It's a yardstick that is fluid depending on the time, place, people and god knows what else…

That was tough thinking in between a working Monday. I really should be getting back to work or feel guilty about wasting time.