Success and failure redefined

There is a question that led me to redefine success and failure in my life. Success isn’t always about getting what you want and failure about not achieving something. The answer to this question tells me whether or not I am a success: Do I love my life?

I know no greater success than that of loving your own life, and losing love for your life is the greatest of all failures. For who can save a person who hates his or her own life? What price do you pay? What present do you buy? The love of living is priceless: both financially poor and rich people can hate their own lives to the point of suicide.

Particular care should be taken when making life-changing decisions. Any opportunity that offers me “success” at the expense of my love for my own life is nothing but an evil illusion. One that will disappear as soon as I “succeed,” giving way to the cruel reality.

That’s why I put my best foot forward in life, and learn from the results of all my endeavors, fruitful or not, knowing that whatever the outcome, I am a success because I maintain love for my life, and not because I acquire, achieve or amass a lot of things.