Who Are Achievers?

It is always be heard and common in every lines of an educator, the teachers, that when a student became a topnotcher leaving behind his colleague he is an achiever. When one graduated with distinction, finish his masters and eventually became a doctor on his field, he then tag as an achiever.

Then what is an achiever then? Only those who are known to be good and the best, who rank number one, the brightest and brilliant? What about those who graduated without distinction, just a plain graduate student who finishes his course and pass without failing grades, are they not called an achiever?

The best doctor, lawyers, engineers and successful businessmen are considered as a great achievements in the society thus, those individuals are being greatly respected and look up since they are regarded as achievers. Then, what shall we call those plain and common people, the rank and file employees, the janitors and utility workers, are they not achievers too?

People are not born equal, others are brilliant and others are slow, if someone is smart and confident, some are timid and has no guts. We could not identify a brilliant man out of the hundreds if everybody have the same kind of brain, and a smart man could not be spotted if the rest has all the guts.

So, an achiever is base on one's capacity, of what he could make out of his effort and strength, of what he could contribute for the good for others or the community as a whole whether his talents, ability, capability and strength. Can you consider a man an achiever if he use his achievement, his brilliant mine to manipulate the mass of people for his own interest? A well verse man in the field of law, sending the weak and innocent one to prison because of bribery, can we called him an achiever?

We are all achievers depending on the kind of profession and field we are in. A swimmer is an achiever rescuing a drown man, firefighters risking their life to contain the fire, doctors without hesitation face the unseen enemy just to save lives, farmers from sunrise to sunset bend their bodies to have a great produce to solve hunger, fishermen rain or shine went into the ocean fighting the storm to able to supply the whole community in their good catch, and teachers with unwavering dedication in educating the children. There are so many of them, these are the sample of people who are achievers, one who is productive and never let the day pass in idle.

How about you, who do you consider an achiever?

Will you not consider yourself an achiever in your own right?