What do you consider success?
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I remember drinking brews with the boys when I was really young, about 16, and I recently for some reason thought about those times. Back then, it was a family who loved me and a good but not decadent house.
What was yours and did it change as you got older?
What was yours and did it change as you got older?
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Raising my own son, I would often think back to "what did my dad do when I was in my son's situation, and my father was in my shoes?" I would then make a decision based on that, and not how I felt. Hopefully, I've been a success in my life. I guess history will judge that. As long as I don't add to the world's problems, maybe I've done all right.
I'm a happy man and doing a job I love to do. If I can make other's life a little better too, I do what I can.
Yep, that pretty much covers it. All the rest is frills.
And what would make it even better is if someone would make a phone where old hands can type out stuff on it without backspacing every 2 seconds.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Hearing my wife say, "You're my hero."
Hearing my clients say, "You've given us peace of mind."
Hearing my BOTL's say, "Dang, bro! Why you hurt me like that?
Hearing my Lord say, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
Oh and the talk to text feature on the phone works awesome. No more backspacing!
Nail on the head Brothers.....only prob - because of injury in 09, the jobs gone and the house is not paid down anymore (several year vacation is expensive lol) - but.. I WILL GET THOSE BACK, I will I tell ya
My father was more of a sperm donor than a dad. My mom worked her fingers to the bone to raise my sister and I. I still remember days that we only had enough food for my sister and I, so my mom would have popcorn for dinner, or no dinner at all. No matter what she had to put herself through, my sister and I always had what we needed.
I've taken that, and used it to raise my own children. They come first, no matter what. If my kids are happy and healthy, and my wife is by my side...I've succeeded.
Today, I own my "pillarless" home in Florida, and there is still a part of me that wishes it had them. But my perception of success has certainly changed. I have a loving wife and beautiful, healthy daughters, I'm able to provide for my family and I don't owe anyone a penny.
I certainly don't believe I've reached any pinnacle, but I think success is based on the ability to find happiness. If you're happy living in a ditch and that's where you are then I congratulate you on your tremendous success. There is actually a homeless man in my town in his mid 30s. He actually comes from a very rich family, he's quite intelligent and very witty, and he'll never take penny or a handout from anyone. He just doesn't agree with modern society and he chooses not to participate and he does this quite well. I also consider him successful.
I see success as a good career in which I got the right education and use it to engineer things that help the world in some way. This means bachelors (done) FE (done) Masters (soon) and PE (4-5 years)..
I also see success as my ability to live comfortably doing what I love which includes my hobbies (scuba, playing music, sports, cigars etc). It includes having a house that I have space to do my hobbies and not be bothered by people because of them. And, more recently (honestly because of this forum) it now includes having a loving wife.
I'm not religious and don't want kids, although if I eventually change that I absolutely plan only to adopt seeing as I was adopted and I might like to pay that forward.
1) Self sufficiency
2) good relationships with your neighbors
3) Raising your children to be self-sufficient, and have good relations with their neighbors.
4) To borrow a line from Second Hand Lions, "Believing in what's right whether it's true or not, because those are the things worth believing in"
I guess that sums it up, for me.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
He's one of mine and passing through the gates of Eternal Love and Salvation.
Simple, to the point of what really matters and what I consider success!
Amen!
Is it in fact success if you are blown up in the self-destruction?
You need to learn your place in the grand scheme of things good sir.
Ask a suicide bomber...