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Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 1:52 PM

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I was checking out the forums at TED.com, this really cool website that my lecturer introduced to my class back when I was in foundations. While browsing through, the topic 'What is success' captured my interest and I decided to give in to my curiosity and click the link.

It was interesting and refreshing what some of the commentators defined as their own version of success. There was one that replied with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that I liked:


To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.


Which comes to remind me of what my sister and I had discussed early last year about our definition of success. Both of us have big dreams, there's no doubt about it but we both agreed that we couldn't really understand people place material success above others. Haven't they seen enough sugarcoated Hollywood movies to know that this aren't the finer things in life? But, to each his/her own.

In the end, my sister came out with a definition that I agree with: Success is the ability to allow the majority of the people convey one's actions and words exactly as one meant it to be.






(Damn, constructing that sentence is harder than it seems. The meaning is there but I know there is a better word(s) to describe it)

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