Society habitually divides humans into two types: successful people and unsuccessful people. "Success" has even become a worldview with universal values ​​- parents desire their children to "success", and they hope that their children will succeed;

Now, the world is in an era of "success". Society habitually divides humans into two types: successful people and unsuccessful people. "Success" has even become a worldview with universal value - parents desire their children to "success", they hope that their children will succeed; middle-aged and young people want to "success" because they want to make a name for themselves; the elderly also hope that they can "success", or at least hope that their children and grandchildren can remember that they have a successful elder.

In the face of the concept of "success", not only individuals, but also collective will reflect its pursuit: companies are constantly pursuing greater market share, higher profits, and higher enterprise rankings; this country strives to increase GDP, national strength, and even the number of gold medals at the Olympics - this means that this country has "success" in some aspects!

What is puzzling is that the "success" advocated by society always contains outstanding utilitarian colors. From a personal perspective, "success" even has clear benchmarks: luxury houses, luxury cars, and annual income of one million.

But we know that in a sound society, such "successful" people account for only 1% or even less of the social class, and more than 99% of people are classified as "unsuccessful" or are constantly striving for "success".

This makes people wonder: In this era when the right to speak is firmly grasped by "success", can people still "unsuccess"?

This is an interesting proposition: advocating "unsuccessful" may not be as artistic as others' eyes as "the whole world is drunk, I am awake alone", but it will be ridiculed as lack of ambition. However, do most people know the true meaning of success? Is it really only a "annual salary of one million yuan for luxury houses and luxury cars" considered successful? Theochnis lives in a wooden barrel to catch lice, but even Alexander stands respectfully before him for advice.

First question: What is success?

In the dictionary, the word "success" has several meanings: 1. Achieve achievements or career; 2. Things get expected or better results; 3. Reap, successful completion of something; 4. Efficiency.

can be seen that the "success" in the current society is only part of the concept of success. In fact, success is a positive feeling, a state of self-confidence, and a kind of self-satisfaction after everyone realizes their ideals. This means that everyone has a different definition of success.

so that we can see that the "success" in today's society is actually an abnormal and unusual "success". The scope of "success" has been artificially narrowed, which is equivalent to money, power, and status. In a sense, "success" has declined.

The second problem: the degenerate "success"

As mentioned earlier, the "success" in today's society has been alienated, and some people have even imposed the benchmark of "luxury houses, luxury cars, and annual income of one million". This is a kind of "materialization success", which is only one aspect of success.

However, if you insist on this "materialization success", it is dangerous for individuals.

From the evil side of human nature: in order to "success", an individual may use any means to believe that the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy, and regard everything as the stepping stone to "success". In other words, individuals may sacrifice everything, even conscience and morality, for “success.”

From the perspective of human nature, in order to "success", individuals may have put in too much effort, experienced failures again and again and persevered, believing that failure is the mother of success, but after repeated tempering, they have lost confidence and freedom, and pursued "success" simply for "utilitarianism".

The former will make people despise all rules and commit crimes for success; but the latter will make people lose themselves too much in dreams, which will eventually lead to self-loss.

is dangerous and terrible in both cases.

The third question: Pursuing true success rather than "success"

Religion largely contains human philosophy. In the faith of Christ, there are three words that are very important to the individual: faith, hope, and love. "Faith" can be sublimated into piety for justice; "hope" is the pursuit of truth; "love" can be sublimated into fraternity, love for all living beings.

For individuals living in our world, success may be more colorful, such as doing a good job for a day, finding time to listen to a concert, make a cup of tea, or just taking a walk in the green space for half an hour. In everything, individuals are successful and satisfied.

There is no need to deliberately pursue the misinterpreted "success". That's just one aspect of "success". True success lies in every breath of life. What people need is a balanced attitude towards success and do everything well. In fact, when a person has succeeded in every little thing in his life, at some point, he may suddenly discover that the "success" in the world is right in front of him and within reach.