Definition Of Success

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Hands sweating, the stomach churning around and around with every second of anticipation, heart gradually pulsating faster and faster as you await to look the results straight in the eye. Days, months, or years of preparation before this big moment of truth can not prepare one for that split second revaluation. Confidence slowly shattering with every moment of deafening silence. What if it didn't go as planned? All those moments of preparation, were they all for nothing? But as the details uncover themselves, all confidence rushes back as a smile unleashes itself onto your face as you hear the words; "You did it! You succeeded!" What do I call Success? It is not wealth, nor fame, no rank, not power or honored name. For one may have all of those, but still be a failure in the end. Success is that overwhelming joy when you accomplish that big bolder of events that highlight your dream. For the last four years, I've participated in the winter school activity of speech. It's helped me not only with my speech abilities, but it's also helped me define my definition of success. Year after year, I'd have to be able to participate with the nagging thought in the back of my mind that I might not place first. However, after my first couple speech meets, I realized that I didn't need to get first place to really succeed. I only needed to deliver my…show more content…
As many know, she did not lead a life full of extravagance. She was a very humble, poor, yet, she was a successful woman. She did not have any money, had very little clothes and had no fancy house, which are the things that our society tells us we need to be successful. However, her success shows in an all together different way. She was able to save thousands of people's lives by opening her arms to help the sick, dying and starving. That right there is true success, saving people's lives when you have very little to save them

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