THE CERTAINTIES OF LIFE (4)

That elated feeling, the happiness, the satisfaction you feel on receiving a positive result, the step towards achievement. The smile and gladness that fills your heart? All of these come with success.

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Just like failure, at a time you least expect or at a time when you have worked so hard for it, success will come. It may be a little less than expected or more than expected, but it is certain that you will feel the slightest tingle of it.
You will feel good with yourself for ever trying to walk the path you have set on. You will feel great for haven taken the step; your heart will beat in excitement because your long-life ambition/goal has been fulfilled or is in the process of being fulfilled. It is success.
However, how you receive and treat the success is what matters.
You are successful in a feat you have been trying for so long. After going up and down the hill of hard work and the stress, you finally succeeded? Then what’s next?
Do you stop working on that goal and relent? Or you keep working at it till you achieve optimum success. Is the success at the first stage going to be the first of many or the last one through the long walk to your ambitions?
For you to achieve success at the first stage and not allow it to be a hindrance for you is the best. Keep working and never lose focus. Try not to belittle your success when comparing it with other people’s success and do not feel supercilious about your success
Your definition of success depends on your definition of achievement. So do not be too hard on yourself when your friends tell you they have succeeded, it all depends on your view of what achievement is.

Success is not final, Failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue that counts.
-Winston Churchill