Why are you in school? What is your purpose for going to school everyday? Whether you go in this school or that school, what do you ultimately intend to achieve from all of this?
For whatever reason you may have, it has something to do with the quest for success. It is in the confidence that getting education will equip us with the necessary skills and know-how to be in. We are not subjecting ourselves to late nights and hectic schedules for nothing. It is for a greater cause, the belief that success is within our grasp if we just reach out and get it.
Some of us may equate success with achievements, riches, or fame. One time too many, we confuse succes as to how other people would define it. We try to reconcile with how other people perceive success and adapt them as our own. That is probably the reason why some people are not happy even with the achievements and the possessions that they have. Beneath the cloud of ambition and power, they have acquired a false sense of what they really want out of life, which is a sad thought, but most of us have fallen prey to this way of thinking.
All things in life are in pursuit of happiness. I don't know of anyone out there whose goal in life is to become the most pathetic person on the planet or the world's biggest loser. It is human nature to yearn to be something better than what we are.
Some people would say that they want to be rich because they believe that when they are rich they will have everything they want therefore they will attain happiness. Some attribute success on material acquisitions, the sums of money they have in their bank accounts or how famous they have grown to be. These kind of definitions are unstable and unfounded because these things are temporary. It may be here one day and gone the next.
I attribute success to happiness. When you are doing the thing what you are passionate about, everything that comes along with it, the money, fame and fortune are just a bonus. Genuine and lasting happiness is something that connects with your mind and heart. The concepts of success and happiness are two analogous goals, both lofty but worthwhile.
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