Happiness and Success 42

Let us assume a person has reached a stage of maturity, wherein he realizes pleasures are far less important than noble accomplishments. He raises a family and provides for the growth of the younger generation, aside from serving goals for himself, his wife, the people he works with, and the organization he works for. Such a person can dream of becoming excellent in his field of endeavor to the point wherein he becomes an authority about certain matters that most people do not know about. The usual problem among human beings is when people get stuck with acquiring more and more wealth beyond their needs, and in burying such wealth into dead or unproductive investments. Very few benefit from hidden wealth. Yet they aim for more —obviously for the heck of it; some say for the spirit of a game known as monopoly. The ideal thing to do is to work towards the achievement of more ideals so that our world will become more civilized, more peaceful, more productive, more stable, and more secure. . . and so on.

Nowadays, we witness how educational institutions worldwide see the failures in the way they raise leaders and breadwinners who define the way our world works. Poverty, hatred, propagation of criminals, terrorists, aggressors against human rights, recession, starvation in certain parts of the world — these are just a few of our realities. We need not dream of nightmares because they are reported in the needs very often. There is social injustice practiced even by gigantic institutions that hoard great wealth for themselves, using charity as their front, but actually keeping vast tracts of land IDLE for many many years. Yet they claim they need more wealth for distribution to the needy.

I would rather praise the entrepreneurs who provide for the income of thousands upon thousands of employees, because we know they strive to improve their performance in terms of ROI. In contrast, those who keep their wealth in different yet unproductive ways, are obviously the people who are irresponsible although they claim to be responsible.

What then should be your choice of dreams ? Initially, most will want to be sufficient with provisions in terms of the means to survive each year. To achieve that dream, first convert it into a goal or set of objectives. Then be good at something. Translate your excellence into benefits others can gain from you, in order to reap a corresponding reward, until the next goal will be a higher one. Never become a part of the greedy people and organizations that get stuck with acquiring more wealth for the heck of it or to bury the wealth in dead or unproductive conditions.