success is the journey, not the destination.

     To define success nowadays is hard because everybody as their own idea of success, there's no longer just one model of success. The way I would define financial success would be making enough money to provide for your family without having to compromise your beliefs or morals and not dreading waking up and dragging yourself to work everyday. Right now since i'm still just a student I have to define my success on the little achievements and personal goals that I have set up for myself along with academic goals. Little every day things like going longer distances on my bike and or beating my top speed, getting an A on a test or bigger things like finally getting a new job or paying off my car. To my peers this goals may seem like a big deal but compared to someone in their 40s with a house and family where these goals are already expected, success is also being defined by age group and become less of a big deal as you get older. The world we live in now is a melting pot of different sub cultures with different forms of success and and sometimes they can even compromises one another. For example, in one of my previous post I posted a video of a comedian by the Dave Stone, in the eyes of other comedians he was considered to be successful because I gets up on stage every night and does his act and ends with the positive response from the crowd. Even though he lived in a van and had to use public bathrooms, that still does not change the fact that he was successful in the stand up community but, in the traditional success model he would be seen as hitting rock bottom because he has no stable income, no resident and no family and is basically off the grid.

     One thing that is helping me inching closer and closer to success is family which I think is also the case for most people. If I wasn't living with my family still I would have to work full time to support myself and would make it harder to attend each class meeting and as work becomes more and more demanding it would add more stress. Not everyone qualifies for financial aid ad, it seems like every year class go up in price more and more. In "Into the wild" Chris achieved his goal of reaching and living in Alaska but, without his parents had a role in success even if he didn't notice. They were his motivations to keep moving and to keep to his morals. It feels like we have lost our way of thinking for ourselves, as far as having more then one idea of success, ever since I could remember there has always been images of people flaunting their money around, wearing lots of jewelry and driving fast cars. This is what most of America grew up on and thinking that any model  of success that doesn't involve having lots of money is alien to most people. Modern media has almost brained washed the youth into thinking the same way towards success, I think that's why the rate of depression is so high in young adults today because the expectations have been set so high.