How do you define success?

Student Lounge College Life
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<p>For those of you who are already thinking about your career in the future, how would you define success? Money? Reputation and prestige? Intelligence?</p>

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<p>As it was once told to me by someone older, you will learn after many years that success is just "upgraded sameness." That is definitely a phrase that can leave you thinking long about life and material things in general. It is also somewhat depressing.</p>

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<p>HAPPINESS. if you are unhappy, whats the point?</p>

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<p>"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." - Emerson</p>

<p>Personal happiness too.</p>

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<p>Emerson always says it best.</p>

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<p>In life, being free (being able to quit a job you dont want to keep doing without destroying you financially) and having a happy family... In my view, I don't need anything else.</p>

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<p>knowledge, arcadian pleasure. success is looking at oneself and feeling satisfaction. how do i define this? in my version, it's the pastoral, simple, rustice, uncaring, fanatstical world of solitude and memory; copying the great works of art like ****aro or monet; remembering the days when u swung around in the meadows with ur lover; playing the piano at adagio in the drawing room; contemplating philosophy at the getty villa, or mediterraean paradise; watching a central asian girl riding on horseback through the steppes wondering if her mottled brown hair can have any relations with the fabled amazons of greece...and finally dying the heroic death in the arms of ur dear sister or some fabled princess of Arcadia or in the imagined arms of an apparition of ur lover</p>

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<p>loaded, screws a lot of hot women, lot of power.</p>

<p>just kidding. Yeah, I agree with Emerson.</p>