What is success?

I am currently watching Oprah as I write this blog. Todays topic is about, two certain questions. Has our world gone mad? What is the definition of success? As I listened to their words, I began to think of my thought about the situation. People these days seem to define success as, materials. Money, mansions, nice cars, you have a job that gives you a status, that is success. But think about it... is your passion truely to become a rich lawyer? Well of course some people's dream do involve materials and such, but I feel that no one really appreciates sentimental things, and don't know what is enough. Look at nature. The trees, the plants, they only take the nutrients they need to live, and lions, they only kill one deer, and that is enough they need to live.

Let me make an image for you. There is two children,  both love to draw. They both want to become artists when they grow older, for that is their passion. It is now highschool, one boy still strives to become an aritst, while the other still has the passion to do art, but let his parents decide his future career. Now they are adults, ones an artist and the other is a rich buisness man. The artist may not be rich, but you bet he is much happier for doing what he loves instead of doing what will make him rich. 

I one day will go to africa and live my life helping orphans, and it might not be a successful life to others, it will be to me for that is what makes me happy.

““When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”” John Lennon