Success noun suc·cess \sək-ˈses\
: achieve the desired aim or result.
Many of us believe that success pertains to wealth or fame, when it is actually just achieving a desired aim or result. The way our society is composed has led us to believe that to be successful we must achieve fame or wealth. Now this could be your desired result all along, but without paying attention to the little successes in life and taking on good habits, you will never reach your end goal, whatever it may be.
I could go all day thinking I’m successful: that I’m a good student, that I study hard, that I’ll go far in life. . . but I don’t. In my mind, I will never fully attain success; I will always strive for it, but without knowing what I want to succeed in, I will never achieve it.
So let me be honest with you - I am not the average person. I have been told that I speak and act differently than others of my age, which is true, but only because I have been expected to do so my entire life. Growing up without the words “I love you”, either as a sentimental phrase one would expect to hear at the end of the day or at the end of a phone call, changes how a child views the world. I had perceived that all girls and women were expected to act and talk a certain way that would be considered “lady-like” along with the words “I love you” being a
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By holding the information I can choose when I share it and what amount of the information I share. While this may count as selfishness, in cases where it is an individual grade at the end of the day, I give credit where credit is deserved. Similarly, if I did not help as much as I should have during a project, I tell the grader that I did not do my part and that I should have done more; I accept responsibility for my failure to do my