What does Success mean to you?
Success is the greatest feeling over everything. it gives you this feeling of accomplishment and achievement. It's vibe is greatly appreciated all over the nation. Who wouldn't want o feel successful or someone close to you reaches success ad helps you through your struggles to get to where they are today. I absolutely have people all around me to motivate me, to strive me to achieve all my goals and to never ever give up.
Success is definitely something you feel, that you have after years of accomplishments. Its' this idea of overcoming an obstacle that you either thought you couldn't achieve or that you struggled so hard for and in the end you achieved that goals and that is what you call success!
One idea of success that could make you or break you is economic success, having all the money, cars houses and all you could ever want in life. Having no worries in all, yes it was definitely a struggle or maybe it wasn't, but overall economic success could definitely go in both categories; this could make you a better person or this could just totally destroy your self confidence. Having too much pride and feeling like your unstoppable or no one is above you, a sense of cockyness as you could say.
In fact having everything in the world, some people still feel like they dot have it all and want more out of life.
For instance in the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Chris talks about why he burned the money before he set off intot he wild his response was," I don't know how much more you can depend on"? Chris was discussing this was the hippy's wife and after she told him that you need to be cautions he replied as if he did care and just brushed it off like I don't need money to live in the woods. He destroys everything just for that reason to get away from society and civilization itself. Chir had it made, good education and came fro a good standing family who was willing to help and support him no matter what. Yet he still didn't feel like it had enough for him to be come successful.
A second thought to this idea of how success feels or how it can damage you is personal issues like self improvement. Maybe you had a bad past and did a lot of things you shouldn't have and now you need to fix it all and make your oath a bit clearer to see down and enable yourself to become a success. This task maybe a hard or easy depending on how you take it as the individual. For myself I went down a wrong path and it messed up alot for me and my future but I seen it, I caught it and I am still here standing today and here to tell you how. In Chris's case it didn't take him very long to branch out and literally become invisible and Chris situation sure pulled him far away from his family. In the book as well as the movie his sister mentions something specific and interesting, "Violence, we were forced to witness it." This was exactly why Chris did what he did. He felt ashamed or maybe a bastard if you will. His father was alier, unfaithful and just over all not a good father figure. His dad was living two different lives, literally he had another family. Previous marriage and a son, which Chris found out from other relative and totally dis-owned his own family. This is why people do the strange things they do to be come success or whatnot, the way you grow up tells a lot about who you are and what you may become.
Lastly we have this idea of resources, transportation for example, which involves money could certainly drive you up the latter to reach success or possibly down the latter and reach no success after all. Some people just don't have the means to send their children off to school, or college. Which is understandable, School or I should say College isn't for everyone. I know some people who didn't graduate college or even high school and have good paying jobs with benefits to help them maintain. Maintaining sometimes gets discouraging, we all have wants and needs but our needs are important. In the movie Chris tells his parents how he doesn't want a new car, after they tell him they would get him one, "i don't' a new car, no material things, none at all." He didn't want a new car he was perfectly fine with the one he had. Which makes sense, material things come and go people don't. Money is so important for many reasons but we need a ruff over our heads and food in stomachs and clothes on our backs. Those are most important to us, without those life is certainly a struggle and could definitely prevent you from succeeding. In this movie/book Chris totally nails this idea to the tee. He come from a god family, went to a good school had a car and even had money, and yet he totally wasn't satisfied and live alone, anonymously in the wild where he felt safe and could find passion.
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