Success Is A Personal Definition

One day, I will be rich enough to own a super car. Parade it around town, get all the mixed attention. Who cares where I’m driving it to? It’s just a medium to prove how successful I am.

In mainstream society, we associate success with luxurious things like a super car. After all, those things cost a bomb. If you can afford one, you’re definitely rich. And rich is success, isn’t it?

But what is success, truly? Being able to own a huge house? Drive a Lamborghini? Millions and billions in the bank?

Don’t get me wrong. I do want to be rich. But if I dig deeper, it’s the perceived outcome that being rich can get me.

Success, to me, is not about owning all these luxurious stuff.

It’s about making a living based on the value I add, not the time I trade. It’s about being able to travel anywhere with my family and friends without worrying about the cost or if I’m able to pay the bills and put food on the table every month. It’s about having the freedom of time to spend and pursue things that really matter in my life.

And let’s not forget health. What’s the point of having all the money in the world when you’re sick and bedridden? And what’s the point of delaying life till retirement to truly live?

Does all of that require me to be a billionaire? I guess not. So by definition, I can consider myself halfway through to being successful. And for those who are already living it, they’re successful in my opinion, even if they fail to see it.

After all, success is a personal definition. Unless you define what success is to you, you’ll just be in a perpetual loop, chasing the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

And it’s not worth feeling miserable because you can never imagine yourself being a billionaire with a fleet of houses and cars just to live up to the expectation of success from the mainstream crowd.

So what’s your definition of success, then?