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The definition of success can be categorised into the following two, a certain social status and an achievement of an objective or goal. So I would prefer to talk about these two ideas of success from the time I lived in to the one I am now living.
Does the higher position an individual ranked the more successful he or she is? Or the level of success is in direct proportional to the amount of dollars in ones account? In China, these two criteria coexist. Weird, huh? Wang Shuo, a famous Chinese writer, notes that, Success to a Chinese merely equals to Known by those silly cunts and make some money. A Ph.D studying theoretical physics once have difficulty covering his ass. And a professor may never beat a taxi driver in salary, not to mention the aircraft pilots who are almost replaced by auto and acts mechanically. Also, a lady who would love to devote her youth in discovering an element but republic the method to concentrate it may also be seen as a nut. Sort of things happen in the states too. The business of the mass is business and the meaning of life without money is meaningless. They are born for money. And for power. It is not the correspondingly responsibility that satisfies them but the attachment, privilege. Needless to say the most obvious benefits of privilege like making money with no competition, which conduct to the vicious circle of the power and money deals. The sons and grandsons of these dictators are also regarded as a successful young man or young woman without any efforts or doing remarkable things, unless they did the crime that triggered the nation's awareness for fairness and morality. The crimes such as ending someone's life without regard for authority may never bother them. For a nation that admires dictators as heroes may never know what true success is.
Last but not least, I want to say, under this tortured value system, success is always looming so near but may never get touched. So, the significance of competition soon faded with the obsolete stereotype of fucked success. As the famous line goes, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Though I have cited it so often that it almost comes to be a cliche, it works very well at least in this issue. |
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