I believe that one of the most common things that a human desires is to be successful. And it is also a human nature that whenever we are on top, as much as possible, we maintain it. Hence, people doesn't only desire to be successful but also to be stable.
According to Merriam Webster, success is the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame and stability is the state of something that is not easily changed. In this world, they say that the only constant thing is change. So is a stable and successful life possible? Let's take it in the general view. Sufficient amount of wealth, respect, and fame differs from every individual depending on his or her standards and technically speaking, in order to have a stable state of something you either eliminate that things that keeps on changing it or have more than enough of what you need. Now, how do we do it? What do we need to do to achieve the state of success that we always wanted? What things shall we eliminate? Or how much success do we need in order for us to be stable?
Just like any complex mathematical problems we have encountered in our life, figuring out the answer to that question without going back to the basic will consume too much of our resources. We mostly end up in giving up without getting it right and just settling for what we've got or just left it unanswered without trying. (Well, we all know that doing nothing will lead us nowhere and success is not given but earned. Success is composed of perseverance, hard work, and a lot of determination and since we are talking about success here, we can scrape off the option of leaving it unanswered and focus on being a risk taker.) In the end of the day, after giving everything we've got, whether we end up with the right or wrong answer, we will just say "I did my best." But deep inside, we hope we were right and never shall we follow it with the "..but I guess my best wasn't good enough" song.
No one loves failure. It is a sad fact that when it is there, it is there. We can never remove it from our life. We can never manipulate the past as well as the things around us but we can always control ourselves. That's why instead of focusing on what was done, we train ourselves to get back up every time we fall down and make a new start. We accept the fact that some things are bound to happen, we learn from it, and we prepare ourselves so we can never make the same mistakes again. We become responsible on how we spend our resources and make decisions in our lives. Thus, a stable and successful life is possible given that stability is a measure of responsibility and success only happens in taking chances.
The question is not how much success do you need to be stable, but how responsible you are with your life. Because no matter how much you have, if you do not take the responsibility of having it, sooner or later you'll see yourself back to square one.
xo,
Athena
