Success is often referred to as the achievement of an earlier set goal, meeting a set target or scaling a hurdle. Any other situations that have semblance to the earlier stated could also be said to be synonymous to our theme of discussion. This is often used in relative terms as different situations can throw up quite varying contexts eventually leading to the endpoint called success. For example, a boy who beats his peers in a spelling bee competition would equally be referred to as successful, even when compared to a two hundred and fifty man army that has just conquered an enemy twenty-five thousand man strong; yet both of these would look dwarfed by the situation where a country as small as Niger were to win a world war against an allied force of the strongest world powers. This signifies that as much as success could come on different scales, it does not take away the fact that it is success all the same.
Now success can very much be likened to power, which means it would often come along with the peculiar feeling of drunkenness, and generally the way this is handled goes a long way in determining the eventual end of the principal act or subject of the drama unfolding. A popular adage says that “a true man is the one who has learnt to treat success and failure the same when they eventually come along”. This effectively means that a level head is highly necessary in all facets of this very subject on the front burner. This would lead to the main crux of the subject being talked about, being that comparatively like the coin there are flip sides to success. These are two eventual scenarios, first being when it is handled well and the second being a calamitous situation of handling it poorly.
One is said to be handling success well when he has refused to let it get into his head, treating people he had met before success came along as the same or with even much more respect as it involves modesty, often depicting that I made it because it was necessary for me to do it, not because I wanted to throw it up in people’s faces that I am now of a different class, and those who do not succeed cannot belong to the class I have just attained. There goes the popular saying that when purpose is not known, abuse is most inevitable which explains that one must understand why success has come along, and there must be a process of strategic planning in place to execute the fame and other things that come along with it. Some people have gone on to use their new found fame to better the lots of others invariably leaving strong and indelible marks of various positives upon the lives of those they have gone on to help.
When success is being handled poorly, panning out the second scenario under discussion; it could wreak a lot of havoc both for the principal actor and also for those in the surrounding involved in this life drama playing out. The subject could go on to live in a world devoid of pity or sympathy for the less successful and upcoming, forgetting very quickly that he was once like these ones; In the process denying himself the opportunity of being a major contributor in another man’s success, a feeling often most gratifying and self fulfilling. It could also accelerate the main dramatis personae on the path of self destruction as there would be no level headed adviser around anymore who can help curb excesses in form of correctional pieces of advice. He also denies the world around him another source inspiration and succor, who knows how many people he would have been able to help up, setting up a potential chain reaction which could have produced a long line of helpers.
Conclusively one must realize that every happening in life throws up a lesson; it is now left to those involved to learn it or leave it. when success comes along, the strongest lesson it brings along with it for the one who achieves is to keep a level head and understand that there is a reasonable amount of luck and chance involved, and so It can be quite opportunistic and should be treated as such. Also people often say there is no real success without a successor, a bit distant from the topic under discussion one would easily say, but in this context the ones he finally gets to help could be referred to as the eventual successors finally bringing fulfillment and putting a smile not only on the face of humanity but also the face of the deity responsible for the success in itself.
