题目“There is only one definition of success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.” To what extent do you agree or disagree with this definition of success? Support your position by using reasons and examples from your reading, your own experience, or your observation of others.
How do you define success? To some extent, I agree with the author assertion that success is to be able to spend your life in your own way. However , the author unnecessarily extends this broad assertion to an irreversible extreme while overlooks other compelling factors that may affect this issue. On balance, my points of agreement and contention with the author involve the fundamental and deep analysis as discussed below. On the one hand, I would like to admit that this statement, although suffers from some obvious drawbacks, has some merits radically in some special cases in which the implicit rationale behind it accords with common sense and our experience in daily life. Hence, it is partially indisputable. For most of us, to be able to spend your life in your own way is a long-time goal. Since we all have this dream in our childhood that we can live like a king and can do whatever we want and spend our life in our own way. Mccandless, an American wanderer who died near Denali National Park after hiking alone into the Alaskan wilderness with little food or equipment. And found his note with "I have had a happy life, thank god and may god bless you all" Even he died in the jungle, but he still thought he had a happy life and he was success, not only became a heroic figure for thounds of yuong people ,inspiring them go to the wild to feel the forces of nature but also became success because he spent his life in his own way! Furthermore, to spend life in your own way is an crucial element of success. Almost all of the person who spend their life in their own way ,such as dedicating themselves into helping people, into creating novel articles, into design new machines will be called succeed. All these evidence demonstrate beyond any doubt that to be able to spend your life in your own way is the definition of success. On the other hand, I have to point out the author fails to mention other crucial elements in the definition of success. In short ,this definition is in short in two aspects. First, the author overlooked the importance of spend ones life in his own way ,and arbitrary eliminate other definitions. Second, it's quite difficult to spend life in your own way ,sometimes it's only those elite or wealthy people can do that. In conclusion agree with the author the definition of success is to be able to spend your life in your own way. However, the definition can be various not only one definition as author mentioned. According to me to be able to spend your life in your own way is only one definition of success.
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