Blogpost 2: Fortune, Money and Fame

We all have our own lusts for things. Its normal to desire to be successful in life and be able to buy and purchase the things that we want. However, we all know that everything has a limit but that same reason has become the reason why we are triggered to do things that are accepted by the norm. Succeeding in life teds to push us to the limit, meaning to say we maximize our capabilities that we have.

Fortune, money and fame are the top three things every person dream of. They don't just give us the capability to do what we want, get the attention that we desire or the life of being in a cloud 9 but also it gives us power. The power to be above others who relies on us, power to manage things the way we want them to happen. 

As teenagers, we are suppose to be in school excelling, doing a lot of projects to meet the requirements in order to pass for the next level but on the other hand that is not happening to our world anymore. Young people tries to get out college as soon as possible to be a part of the "real world". They want to experience being an adult earning their own money, not for their future, but for their leisure as the enjoy life. They want to live life to the fullest that's why they try to be out there and find their own fortune. 

In an article entitled Money! Power! Fame! (And Other Ways To Fail) from the site Harvard Business Review, Bill Taylor discusses the usual mistake people thinks about success and that is depending on fortune, money and fame as a standard of a good life. However he gave some tips of how to be a good leader, as he states, "The surest way to fail is to rely for your success on money, power, and fame." Its all about humility rather than pride. Most people commit mistakes, especially those who are just starting in life, by thinking that pride can bring them on top but in reality it is the other way around. Pride will only eat yourself, leading you to be selfish in life and in the end, it will push you to use people and hurt them.

This is the most common mistakes in our generation. Young people these days tend to just think for their own good. what is the effect of this mentality? Simple, there won't be good leaders in the future, no one will be able to train the next generation. 

Also, in another article by Shashank Sampathy, Success : Some Times its not about Money or Fame from the Rotten View. He shared here that people has the wrong idea of success. It is not about those three material things but rather its about your passion on doing what you love and what you are happy about. It's being able to do things trusting yourself that you can be something big with the small things that you're doing today. Here's an inspirational quote from his article. "Don't waste your precious talent and become a clown instead of Einstein, where others laugh at you because achieving Success some times is not about Money or Fame, it's about something more, its about love, its about confidence, its about getting through difficulties and more importantly its about Happiness."

I believe that the children are always the future. As they grow old, they will have their own spot light in this world to be an impact to the lives of other people. However, It wont be easy. it requires hard work, perseverance and heart in the field of their work. We must not be blind to what the majority thinks about "success" but rather let us focus on how we can get to it without using or hurting other people. Lastly, we should not think selfishly, lets help one another as one generation in order to attain the real goal: to be a better future.