If only ambition is as easy to come by as poets quote it. The chances of people becoming successful would count thousands. I'm at 0001.
Half of those successes are driven by hard work; the other half driven by luck. But none without constant or occasional prayer.
If the road to success is put into words, I can summarize it into two: "The most successful people are those who didn't give up on themselves" and "Success is not just about what you know but who you know".
Decent jobs alone are hard to get these days. We're in the era where CV is no longer the only thing to gamble, money is required of us before we can earn it, and "backer" is a stronger qualification than having Latin honors.
The world is more competitive. And investments barely return.
While some people have the ready option for easy success, most of us learn by trial and error. We tolerate daily hardships in the hope that our sacrifices can mean a good change one day. But the hardest part sometimes is in not knowing when that day will arrive, or whether our actions always lean towards that success. We don't know. But haven't you ever wished life came with a detailed instruction manual?
How I wish there's a crash course for it with no demands for an average score to pass. On a second thought, the point of success, I guess, is that it is never equal to mediocrity. We cannot really call ourselves successful by simply aiming for the "good enough". We should settle not to be the best but to be better.
I realize that only now do I truly understand what Albert Einstein meant: Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is essential that we do not only know, but that we apply what we know and we do not intend on stopping.
Einstein deserves the moniker, genius. With emphasis.
