Brief Reflections on the Meaning of Success By Mary Lou 2007-10-31 13:17:32

People give diverse and divergent meanings to success, which evolve out of their own understandings and experiences of life. Like quite a few of the Chinese my age, I attached varied meanings to “being successful” in different life stages, harboring great expectation for the achievement of it. In high school, success was assumed to be the future entrance to a top university in China; prior to the graduation from university, it amounted to either acquiring a descent job or continually pursuing a master’s degree in university; when it was time to form a family, success was then rendered as finding Mr. Right with a gentle heart as well as promising future. At the present my success lies in the good performance of a series of roles I am concurrently taking – a mom, wife and daughter.

In the process of striving for the accomplishment of these goals which serve as light posts in life, we are being led eventually to the kind of life we are dreaming about. It is for sure, however, that not all the goals could come into being; they might nevertheless be able to get you closer to the aims you planned upon if you do your utmost for them.