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Do you want to succeed - what does success mean to you?

Success means different things to different people - I think it’s actually a bogus goal / target, because it’s not possible for EVERYONE to succeed: Success only works if something else is DEFEATED. I’m OK with destroying diseases, but I really don’t like the idea of subduing other people or even plants or animals (well, of course I want to eat chocolate, I will not weep for the poor cocoa beans! ;)

So the main problem I have with the words succeed / success is that they mean that something else has to be defeated (this meaning of the term is a little bit lost today, but it’s actually still in there — just consider that being successful is like winning a prize and everyone else who doesn’t win the prize is considered NOT successful).

Do you think a WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN… (you get the idea) is possible for EVERYONE? NO LOSERS?

You may say I’m a dreamer… :D

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Abba Zabba offline Verified User (5 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks, 1 day ago (11 minutes after post)

Well, what I define as a personal success might seem minuscule to others, but does that make it any less of a success to me? No, because it was a feat that I achieved and that I value. Compare my so called ’successes’ to that of Einstein or Clapton however and obviously mine pale in comparison.
As long as you believe that your successes mean something to you and you only care about self-improvement, not about competition, it’s fine.

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Abba Zabba offline Verified User (5 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks, 1 day ago (26 minutes after post)

So unless I improve on a design or create something malleable that is part of your world, I am not a success as a human being?
Bah humbug I say!

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An Unknown Location | 4 weeks, 1 day ago (35 minutes after post)

Haha yes, I am the trees and the grass and the rivers and the dumpster on my street.
Nah look everyone defines success according to their own terms and that is fine with me. I think I am a success just for the fact that I’m still alive (could have been hit by lightning or had a satellite from space fall on my head or whatever) but no, I am still here. That is success in and of itself.
Awards, the Nobel Peace Prize, Pulizers… these are all just ways of creating a new high standard for success, something to aim for, but its all subjective at the end of the day. When you die, you won’t care if you were a success because you’re dead.
Actually, now that I think of it the greatest success any human could achieve would be to raise their own kids. Because that is what we are ultimately built for anyway. Procreation, survival of the species.

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MyNameIS_CharloTTe offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks, 1 day ago (49 minutes after post)

I love that song! Imagine by John Lennon :)
kinda unexpected from a teenager ^_^

I think its what getting what we want in life, and it gives us that big proud feeling and then trumpet sounds and… sorry getting carried away. I actually play the Bari Sax (i used to be a tenor sax) I dunno how i got into talking about instruments… oh well back to the subject.

Sucess. Its like what Dexter said in Dexters laboratory!! :)
Its like your so PROUD and accomplished and you did what you wanted in life that you worked so hard on.

~CharloTTe
someone help with mine?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! oooOoOoOooooooOoOohhh

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Max offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 169 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks, 1 day ago (50 minutes after post)

Sprite has a good point:) Anarchism it’s a good idea to be a good steward of yourself, so you can share with others. Our world begins with us and our direct family and reaching out when possible:)

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Max offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 169 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks ago (13 hours, 14 minutes after post)

Anarchism wrote:

Max wrote:
Our world begins with us

Well, MY world begins with a sort of mash up of chocolate and hot sunny beaches with people wearing almost no clothes, but if that sounds messy to you then I’ll happily accept that your notion of world might be more like meat and potatoes and tidying up to go walk into a building and put on an act… — is that what you mean?

No man….I like yours:) Beech’s..mmm…sunny…heat and good food…lol. BTW I don’t walk up to a building…I arrive:)

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