The Importance Of Success In Professional Life

As a young boy happy people fascinated me. It was such my intrigue that one day I resulted in asking my father why they always seemed happy. Succinctly he replied, "They are happy because they are successful, just like you are." This was a clear and simple answer any young kid could understand; yet, that was not my case. The answer he provided me with was nothing close to what I expected, therefore, it made things even more confusing. What did success mean? Was it a disease? Had I contracted it as my father said I was "successful" too? These would be the questions that circled my mind on aftermath of this event. From this moment on my source of fascination shifted to a more concrete concept: success. Many years passed until I heard this word again, although this time I did had an idea of what it meant. This was achieving an expected outcome. I grew up …show more content…
To succeed as a man is more difficult.” This is perhaps why, in my opinion, personal success is the most important of successes. Humans grow up being told that in order to be successful, one must get married, have an important job, have a six digits salary, have two or three kids, own a big house, and even have a beautiful car - the apparent epitome of this seven digit word. However, this is not the case for everyone. To the poor heroin user in Mexico, success might mean stealing enough money to buy his next dose, while for the Colombian soldier, success might mean avoiding getting shot by the enemy forces to see his daughter’s smile once more. The definition of personal success isn’t a universal law. Precisely, this is the reason why it has the word personal in it. Personal success goes beyond getting what you want; it has a much deeper symbolical meaning. It means achieving one’s deepest desires, consequently, ultimate happiness. The American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once gave a beautiful insight on personal