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A Successful Human Being
What is your idea of success?
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“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver
EVERY person’s definition of success is a different one.
In all the videos and master classes about ‘how to succeed in life’, what is forgotten is, that there is no ‘one size fits all.’
Yet, ‘gurus’ of every intellectual shape and size dish out theories of success. Gullible people believe that their theory would instantly get them fame and fortune. Sometimes, though, the ‘guru’ is the only one laughing all the way to the bank, and becoming ‘successful’ at the expense of those they gull.
When my life is so different from yours, how can your theory of success be mine?
There is a poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, titled ‘Richard Cory’ It was a part of the undergrad syllabus in the college I taught in. I loved the poem and the salutary theme.
Richard Cory was rich, handsome and successful. Everyone loved and envied him. They complained about their own lives, and tried their best to imitate him, and live like him. And then:
And he was rich — yes, richer than a…
