What It Means To Be A Child Essay

Would you consider yourself successful? This is the question that we all strive for but never truly think about. Success is defined as “a favorable or desired outcome” by Merriam-Webster Dictionary. A vague and quite bland answer. What happen to the passion that the story books once told us was possible. What happened to our ability to believe that anything was possible? I believe that that type of compassion and open-mindedness can be found in two places. The first being in your school, and the second in the laugh of a child.

Success is not something that you can buy or receive, it is an emotion like that of all of the others. I believe that it fits in somewhere between hope and compassion. It is one’s ability to achieve …show more content…
To me, success is about making someone else happy, about accepting the truth and criticing it to fit into your own values. This is a key trait in a child. If I child cannot be successful then they would not be a child. Their growth and prosperity is a one of a kind award. Success is being able to be a healthy and happy person in a society that might be a little bit grayer then we would like to imagine. It has been found that on average a child laughs about 10 times a day. In an adult maybe twice a day.

For someone who has seen a lot and been through even more a happy life is the ultimate success. Between my mother being ill and never having a stable father figure or even a stable home, I never saw that happiness in anything. Being able to see the beauty and the passion of a student like yours is one that truly makes me happy. I had spent so much time hating myself and the life that I had been given, I hadn’t seen what gift that I hadn’t been given. I hadn’t seen that I still had friends and family and this remarkable ability to laugh. This was something that I hadn’t felt in a long time, but when ever I was with a child I could hear and feel. This emotion