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To: elmatador who wrote (94190)	9/1/2012 5:21:14 PM
From: Joseph Silent	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219961

Elmat, the underlying theme seems to be "I did this and I was good and I got that which was also good and made me feel good". That seems to be the conventional measure of success. What does "success in life" really mean? >>> Means you aimed at something. You've got a good portion of that thing that you aimed at. >>> My own goals (if I can get to the essence of them) have been always being able to choose: >>> Choose doing what I wanted to do. And not be forced by the circumstances to do something just to earn a living. >>> I considered myself successful in my own life because I could exercise those choices. This is just an example and not necc the best or most tasteful. Nevertheless it is an example. There were roughly 3000 people who died in the 9/11 attack. For the most part, (a) they aimed at something (successful jobs in the finance industry?), (b) met their goals (they were working there) (c) chose what they wanted to do (they went to work that day) (d) considered themselves successful because they exercised their choices. Did their success just vanish? Is success then simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time? There seems to be more to "success" than "Look at how good I am, Ma!", because it involves more than "I did this" and "I chose that and it worked out". Definitions and meanings are strange things. They are relative to where you stand, and when you ask, and perhaps a host of other things. In this sense, perhaps "success" isn't anything personal at all, and the "I" is fooling itself with acquisition.