Just a thought - Success and a Meaningful Life

 Success

What does it mean? More precisely. What does it mean to you?
Does it mean owning something expensive? Does it mean achieving the highest ranking of some organization? Does it mean earning loads of cash? Is it materialistic or is it based on spiritual needs like finding the love of your life or having a happy family. Frankly,everyone is crazy about it but what is it?

Think about it. The moment you die (or before you die), when you reflect about your life and reconsider.. was it meaningful? What is meaningful to you? What have you done when you had the time? the idea? the energy? Were you fulfilled? Did you succeed in what you believed?

 Think about it. While you go to school. Then attend college and perhaps university followed by getting a job interview. Being accepted and perhaps get married. What's next? Have kids and wait for retirement and death? Aren't you no different than a processed product from the factory? Even a processed product has longer life span than you and what do you do with that time? 

  Think about it. You have time and yet you have no time. What are you doing with it while you still have it? What are the wonderful things that could happen if you utilize it? Take Steve Jobs for example, he said that remembering the fact that you are going to die one day is one of the most useful tools for success. Sure he changed the technology world I suppose, but what's more important is the fact that he changed lives. He changed our perspectives (well some of us). 

  What is your definition of a meaningful life? Materialistic things don't follow you when you die so what's the point in that? What did you do while you were given the time?

Humans are incredible. We can soar in the skies and dive in the deep blue oceans even though not biologically equipped so. We can communicate with people on the other side of the world without traveling there. We can capture moments and keep them in still pictures as if it was printed from our eyes. Take all that and show it to humans a few centuries before and they'd chase after you with a burning torch screaming "WITCH!!"  

 The thing is, we humans are incredible. Incredible beings and yet what are the most of us doing with our lives? Are you happy doing what you are doing now? Are you driven to live to the fullest? What's your purpose?

 You don't know when is your last day. But you do know that it will come. And when it comes, have you lived up to the life you wanted? Or did you waste it by living someone else's dreams?
  There is no such thing as impossible. It may be hard but it is definitely not impossible. We may not be fully equipped with the "supposed" recipe for success like money, fame and publicity. But we are gifted to be resourceful . Not to mention to be fully equipped with determination and faith which most of us don't really utilize.
Look at the wright brothers.
They flew. 
Man with two legs and no wings.
Flying. 

I don't see no reason why we can't do the same for our lives for what we believe in.
Love all you can, Give all you're able to, and most importantly. Live.

(Some sources and examples are from the TED vids. Check it out. Very inspirational. Others are just me having sleeping problems and the urge to get all the stuff out of my head and in to the blog :P )