Success

As per dictionary.com , success is defined as ::

1.	the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors.

2.	the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.

Thats actually very interesting.I like (1) more than (2) , although neither of them actually come close to what I define as success.

I think a much better definition is "achievement of one's aim or goal".

So we got a node :: "Goal".

Lets dig more to see if there are more nodes involved.

Sometimes , its not the goal that is of importance , but rather the path.The journey that one makes to reach a destination is sometimes more important than the destination.

For eg , one might say , gaining wealth is success . Ok. But gaining wealth at all cost ? May be not . One might say that its about gaining wealth the honest way.

So what am I coming to . Well , I think I found another node here :: "Path"

So to connect the two nodes , we might say , achieving some "goal" through a specific "path" is success.

Lets dig more.

What might be important to you might not be important to others.Like for me , I really wish that I was the legendary musician Kishore Kumar.I am not.Still I might be called successful by a set of people , while others might see me as a total failure, while I might consider myself in the middle of road to success ( or failure for that matter ).

Alexander thought he was successful and the very next moment he realized that he wasnt.What changed in two moments ? I guess its the wish.Its the desire.The desire of the very goal he set for himself.One moment it was something and the other it was something else.

Hey wait a sec , I think I got another node here :: "Desire"

Lets connect the nodes again.

Success is achieving "self-desired" "goals" , through a "self-desired" path.

( Some might argue that walking on a chosen path is itself a goal , but I like to keep goal and path as two seperate guys)

So , to summarize , success is something very personal.To be called successful , you have to be successful in your own right.Caliberating someone else by your own scale is as wrong as caliberating your own success by others.It is this mistake that often people do and sometime later in life they realize they are discontent with what they achieved.

To be successful , define your own goals and path to achieve them.Atleast you will be satisfied that you started in the direction you wanted to.