What is success ? It depends what you want to achieve. Sometimes passing in exams is a success and sometimes getting a new house. But just think that is it really a success? Why we associate success to materialistic things? Today, the definition of success has changed. Getting Rich is now a success. But many years ago, success is not what today is.
Name any three billionaire between Croesus and Bill Gates. Not after Bill Gates. There is a 3000 years' gap between Croesus and Bill Gates. There are dozens of billionaires after Bill Gates, like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk etc. But what about before Bill Gates? You don't know anyone, Right? But there were thousands of people who were billionaire. They are not known. You know why? They didn't show off. They didn't glamorize their wealth. They were not celebrities. But today's billionaire are celebraties. They hit our dopamine. That's why we think being rich a success.
Do you know how much money Albert Einstein had? No one knows. Because he was famous for science not for his wealth. Almost everyone knows who got the Oscar this year. But do you know who got The Nobel Prize? No, Right? Oscar is more famous than Nobel Prize because there are dollars behind Oscars. Just pull back the dollars from Ronaldo and Messi and let's see who want to play football. No one will play football.
Pull back the wealth of Bill Gates and see who read his books. No one would read a poor person's book. People just want whatever they can get because they are receivers. Selfishness is the most contiguous disease and the sooner we realize it the sooner we will understand that who is putting disease in us and who is eliminating it.
For me, being rich is not success. Giving is success. Giver naturally attracts us. It's in our nature that giver attracts us more than receiver. Naturally we respect Mother Teresa, Abdul Sattar Edhi and Nelson Mandela more than today's leaders like Donald Trump and Narendra Modi. Because those were the givers.
The person who is happy with what he had is the most motivated person in the world. But what motivational speakers tell to them? The say "If you born poor its not your mistake but if you die poor its your mistake" ok what if someone after hearing them, tries to work hard but do not get what he wants? Its not necessary that you will get it in the first attempt. What will he do then? What if become hopeless and never be happy again. Who is responsible for that? That's why I said that the person who is happy with what he had is the most motivated person in the world. He needs no motivation.
The question is "if earning more money and improving the quality of life is sin? We want to earn money so that we can be givers too. We want to give charity thats why we are earning money." The answer is: no, earning money is not sin. Earn how much you want but remember two things.
Don't be so indulge in making money that you start ignoring the family and happiness in little things.
And the second thing is that don't say that you want to be giver and you want to give charity. That's why you want to earn more. Because we read it in 6th grade book that it's not the amount of money but the weight of money which depends.
God loves the person who have little money but he gives charity, more than, the person who have alot of money and gives charity a huge amount of money.
It doesn't bother a rich person to give a huge amount in charity because he has much more. But it really matters a lot for a person who has little money but he still gives charity after knowing the consequences. So for me, the second person is more respectable and successful than the rich one.
These are the points I want to write to prove that being a rich is not a success. Giving is success, either it is education, information, health or charity. Bring Mother Teresa and Elon Musk together and ask people to choose who they want to be. Not even 1% who is true to them will choose Elon.
Just for example go to any hospital and ask the old patient on death bed a question. What we will do if he have the chance to go back in time? No one will answer to have more money by going back in time. They all will choose happiness and family. So being happy with what we have is the success.
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