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What defines Success in life?

Success in life is?

  • Success in life is largely defined by one's wealth and income and or business success.

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • Success in life is largely defined by the contentment one has for their life.

    Votes: 17 94.4%
  • Total voters
    18
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On these forums, and on media outlets in general, I constantly see success being equated with being rich. For example a billionaire may be described as successful or conservatives may describe a tax as a war on success or something along those lines.

It has always been a pet peeve of mine because I don't think that wealth necessarily equals a successful life. For example, a mulitmillionare may have a bad marriage and a horrible relationship with his or her kids. Why should that person be described as successful in life simply because of their wealth? Conversely, a person may be a fishing guide that loves what they do, has a good family, but is hardly even middle class. Why should that person not be described as successful in life, indeed more successful than the hypothetical wealthy person described before? Anyway what do you think?
 
For one, being right with your maker.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
On these forums, and on media outlets in general, I constantly see success being equated with being rich. For example a billionaire may be described as successful or conservatives may describe a tax as a war on success or something along those lines.

It has always been a pet peeve of mine because I don't think that wealth necessarily equals a successful life. For example, a mulitmillionare may have a bad marriage and a horrible relationship with his or her kids. Why should that person be described as successful in life simply because of their wealth? Conversely, a person may be a fishing guide that loves what they do, has a good family, but is hardly even middle class. Why should that person not be described as successful in life, indeed more successful than the hypothetical wealthy person described before? Anyway what do you think?
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Precisely my view.
 
Raising healthy happy kids and being one yourself no matter how old you get.
 
That's why I always say "economically successful".
 
The amount of offspring you have created to spread your gene pool! I'd rather be rich with contentment than rich with money.
 
Most words have multiple definitions. Get over it.
 
mpg said:
Most words have multiple definitions. Get over it.
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That is why the question was how do you define success personally. There is no right or wrong answer, no reason to be a dick about it.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
On these forums, and on media outlets in general, I constantly see success being equated with being rich. For example a billionaire may be described as successful or conservatives may describe a tax as a war on success or something along those lines.

It has always been a pet peeve of mine because I don't think that wealth necessarily equals a successful life. For example, a mulitmillionare may have a bad marriage and a horrible relationship with his or her kids. Why should that person be described as successful in life simply because of their wealth? Conversely, a person may be a fishing guide that loves what they do, has a good family, but is hardly even middle class. Why should that person not be described as successful in life, indeed more successful than the hypothetical wealthy person described before? Anyway what do you think?
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I completely agree.

"Success" is a relative term. What Maggie looks at as being successful may well be failure to someone else. Dif'rent strokes for dif'rent folks. It's not a hard concept to grasp. Happiness is like that. And to be successful? One must, above all else, be happy. If happiness required "money", there'd be an awful lot of miserable people in the world.

In a Third World country, happiness might be living in a safe little village near a clean-running stream that never dried up...not losing any of your children to hunger or disease before they're grown...and a herd of goats to call your own. Ahhh, happiness! Give that to Justin Beiber, and he'd shoot himself in the head.

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Funny, the Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid doesn't say a thing about money...
 
"Money might not be able to buy happiness, but it does make for a nice down payment."

:mrgreen:
 
shlunka said:
The amount of offspring you have created to spread your gene pool! I'd rather be rich with contentment than rich with money.
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So those with no children are not 'successful' in life?
 
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Success, to me, is being content with what I have and who I count as close friends....

My Dad, a businessman through and through, defined success as who remember his name. I define it as who remembers my name, and smiles. ;)
 
If you are a man...how much horsepower your car/truck/motorcycle has, how many times you had free sex with someone that you thought was way better looking then you are, how many hours of volunteer work you did and how many posts you have on debatepolitics.com (less is more for the last one).

If you are a woman...I have no idea.

;)
 
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WCH said:
For one, being right with your maker.
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Actually, I agree with this.

Of course, I don't think my 'maker' is God -- but you gotta be right with your own personal universe, whatever it is. If you're an atheist like me, that might mean being right with the world and where you want to see society going.

Or it could be anything else, but I agree fundamentally that you need to feel good about where you fit in to the grand scheme of life.
 
The results, thus far, speak well for the quality of the members here.
I had to think about 25 seconds in order to make a selection...and, when young, in the previous century, I may have voted for (one), rather than (two)....
 
Success in life is defined by the individual. If you think you are successful, then you are.
 
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