There is only one definition of success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.

There is only one definition of success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

 

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.” (Hamlet - Shakespeare), why would Shakespeare wanted to raise a question of death? The answer can be found in his literary work itself. The desire to die arises when one is not satisfied with his own condition. Everyone has his own desires and aspiration, every man or woman wants to lead his or her life in his or her own way. These desires to lead the life in own way are desires to be happy. As it is well said; ‘Success is a State of Mind’, a state that desires freedom. However, meaning of success can be different for different people, for some people it could be an economical success for others it could be self satisfaction. But, all these meanings lead to the ultimate truth, the desire for freedom.

                    

                A man who wants to be rich will not be called successful if he is not able to use his money in his own way. Think about a multimillionaire who’s all the money is in the bank and he has to take permission of the bank, every time he want to spend a dime. We call Steve Jobs of Apple or Lerry and Serge of Google as successful not only because they are rich but to the fact that they led their life in their own ways. Steve was suspended from school, but he led his life on his own terms and found Apple, a great company. Lerry and Serge went to Microsoft with a great idea, but Microsoft rejected the idea calling it foolish. But, these innovators went their own way to discover Google. The success comes with the freedom and in some sense success and freedom are synonymous.

 

             Freedom of thoughts and actions lead to a successful life. An entrepreneur will not be able to progress if his thoughts are bottlenecked. HHHHis desire for success is his desire for freedom. Moreover, on achieving the goal an entrepreneur will feel the same joy and freedom as he was feeling while progressing towards the goal. We may not call a saint or a small business man a successful person. But, if they are leading their life in their own terms, they will feel happy. And if someone feel happiness he is successful, the perception of the world can not change one’s state of mind.

 

             Although some people can claim that there is necessity to restrict freedom of people in some cases. For example society will not agree to a control of major community over a minority one. In this case the society is restricting the freedom of one community to ensure the freedom of other community. Here we are not concerned about success of individual but the success of whole society. A single group’s happiness can not represent the success of society.

 

            For all these reasons, we can define success as a metaphor for freedom. A life without any boundaries, a life where one can breadth in free sky represents success. As Albert Einstein famously quoted; “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

 

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It is not Personal Anymore.

It is unrealistic to expect individual nations to make, independently, the sacrifices necessary to conserve energy. International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations.

 

            There have been a lot of talk about the two fastest growing economies of world, India and China, are playing as major contributors in gulping natural resources. This issue is controversial one, on one hand the country like India which is underdeveloped and power hungry can not sacrifice its much needed growth. On the other hand, a danger of going out of natural stock is looming over the world. Preservation of natural resources is not possible by contribution by individual nation. It is unrealistic to expect from poor nations to sacrifice their needs of energy without any support from developed nations.

           

            The need to conserve energy is a global issue and it will take a worldwide participation to achieve the cause. Underdeveloped countries like India, Malaysia, Kenya and others not only energy starved, but they don’t have necessary technology to get the alternative sources for energy. It is not completely true that developing nations for their aspiration to become powerful are playing selfish. In recent events India’s demand for civilian nuclear technology shows its motive to get the environment friendly energy source. Developed countries like America and China should support the developing nations to come up with alternate energy sources by sharing the new technologies.

 

            Other harrowing problem that is now distressing globe is global warming. With an increase in industrialization and global population the emission of green house gases is increasing. Further, the pollution and global warming effects does not affect any single country. Recently scientists alerted nation that ice at Antarctica is melting at a fast rate and that as an aftereffect adding to the rise of sea water level. There are many islands which are on verge of extinction. These alarming facts clearly indicate that now the worldwide cooperation is needed to fight back with global warming and pollution. The nations around the world have to come up with the solutions to this problem by cooperating and sharing knowledge.

 

            Clearly, it is not personal anymore. Countries can not just point any nation and ask him to stop using energy resources. Before giving any instruction powerful nations have to support the others in every possible way. They can not just push the already energy hungry nations to stop production and starved to death. It is a new flat world, but the world is flat not only for business but also for other concerns like global warming, disparity, population, and draining resources.

 

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