July 23rd, 2010 | 
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So you think you’re smart?
The parents dream – my children are not only well-behaved, they are attending university and excelling in their studies. One day they will be leaders in their field… A common ideal for parents but reality, a dream headed for failure.
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Universities, higher education, advanced learning are not the keys to success, happiness or a fulfilling life. They are only steps necessary to achieve a particular lifestyle and career experience.
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Success is fulfilling your personal ideals. So if you want to be married with 6 children and you achieve it, then you are successful but you are not necessarily happy, wealthy or fulfilled. You have successfully achieved one of your fantasies, nothing else. You have successfully converted a dream into reality.
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Whether you become a lawyer, doctor or street cleaner you will not be able escape the constant unexpected twists and turns of life. You will still be a victim of life. You will still experience happiness, unhappiness, frustration and pleasure. Within the wide scope of life, your career or your success is but a tiny aspect of the whole.
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No matter what you achieve, you will not escape from real life. The richest to the poorest, the most famous to the most secretive, all experience the ups and downs of daily life. There is no escape. There is no utopia. Things will not be better when… they will simply be different to what they are now.
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So whether you’ve got degrees or money, fame or notoriety, you are still subject to the strange and unpredictable punches and kicks that life throws at us all.
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So what is success? Perhaps success is the ability to make a happy life in an unhappy world.
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Your statement "Perhaps success is the ability to make a happy life in an unhappy world." is correct. UNARGUABLY correct. At ANY point, for ANY human there is still an unhappiness somewhere. This is not a negative idea, merely the truth.