Thoughts to You from Yours Truly - ( TYYT ) - ( 86 ) - What is success in life ?

Thoughts to You from Yours Truly - ( TYYT ) - ( 86 ) - What is success in life ?

Most people like to ask themselves whether or not they have lived a successful life. Well, this is a big question that requires a lot of reflection before we can give an answer. To me, there is only one way to make a reply. It is a matter of personal value judgment. There are numerous way of defining success in life but the one sure way to become a failure is not to have set yourself a goal in life at all. Without a goal to gauge your achievements, your rating in life has to be zero. Life without a goal is a zero standard for life and zero standards gives rise to zero ratings. Everyone must live by one's own standards for there is no preferred frame of reference or universal criterion for everyone's life by virtue of Einstein's Special Relativity. So, you must always remember this. You live for yourself and yourself alone and for nobody else. Then, what about the ones we love you may ask. Do we not live for them ? The simple answer is in the positive but it does not conflict with my first proposition of living for oneself and oneself alone. Without loving and caring for you own well being, you will not be able to love any one else. Only by learning to love and live for yourself will you be qualified to love the ones close to you. If you do not know how to live and love yourself you will be unable to love anybody else for that matter. Living for yourself imply living according to your own principles and goals and I am sure that one of those personal goals have to involve loving the ones close to you. At the end of the day or the end of your life, success in your life will ultimately be measured by the fulfilment of your goals and responsibilities in life. Have you been a good son or daughter; husband or wife; brother or sister; a good professional in your own area of expertise; a good citizen or neighbour ? Never compare your success to that of any other person for each is different in every way. That is the special quality and true value of each individual, hence my dedication to liberal individualism or humanism. But always remember this. It does not matter how you die because death comes to us all. It only matters how you have lived ! So, live life to the fullest and start with the initial step like all long journeys - the first step - which is this - to find your own meaning in life and then go for it !