success- a myth or mirage

SUCCESS – A MYTH OR MIRAGE
Great thinkers and philosophers of the world believed that one should never look forward to being successful that the ‘success’ one believes at a time is shallow and will crumble to meaningless later. Is this a cry that the unreachable grapes turn bitter?
You may gain fame and richness if you are in a line of work and once you are out of it the same gets faded away. The statues- the symbolic creation for name and fame and thus for success loses its limbs one by one as the time passes and the generation changes and the remnant rumble after sometime as a ‘silent monger’. We have the idioms and phrases that preaches, ‘the survival of the fittest’,’ fight to be the best’ or ‘race to win the fastest’. All these are supposed to be result oriented maneuver - the success; but this success is short-lived, driven away by the next flood-fury or a fatalistic event where the victim slips in success and succumb to it. The ironical maxim is that ‘you try your best’ where success may fetch you or may happen the other way – this is the cynicism of approach. Out of ten one may fetch success; but can you say others were truly unsuccessful? The one climbed the steps of the ladder believes that he has conquered success but is oblivious of the fact that the ladder itself is getting tumbled and may lose its hold on the ground or the slope. A short lived success, therefore, is a’ blind vision’.

Reality often eludes you. The reality that you think that you have excelled and believe that ‘you are the best’ is simply a relative situation as the reality lies somewhere else which neither you nor I is aware of. If taken otherwise some others may think that they will do ‘next time best’ which is a strive for success belittling the ‘best of others ‘!

Success, therefore, is not an achievement forever and that it is a continuous process. If you consider success is the ultimate fulfillment and cease further initiatives on the matter is a negation of success. Every drop of water you fill into the tumbler only removes the vacuum of that tumbler but one should not forget that there are lines of tumblers that are empty. Continuity is of efforts, continuity is of fame, continuity is of life and continuity is of Nature are simply a process and is not eternal.

M.S.kumaran