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What does success mean to you?

Many have been conditioned to look for success through the paths of career, achievements, profits, praise, financial wealth etc. That way, we have learned a narrow view of success. By running in search of this kind of success and pursuing it, we end up exhausting ourselves, getting ‘burnt out’ and depressed.

In order to achieve these goals we have stopped caring for the inner being and relationships.

That has led to stress, pain, anxiety, family break-ups, personal and relational disintegrations and as a consequence we feel empty.

Although we achieve the applause, the income and other successes, the self is malnourished and has the sensation that it is lacking something.

Reaching fame, financial wealth and the power of a visible position with a broken heart, broken family and a sick body only causes depression which probably explains why in recent history many famous people have ended up committing suicide.

If we want to redirect our personal and collective lives toward true wellbeing and wholeness, we have to re-evaluate and redefine our beliefs and factors that lead to success and failure.

But before asking what success and failure means, it is also important to be clear of the context you want success in.

Sit in silence and look in the main dimension that has been overlooked, look inside yourself where the true ‘you’ exists, it’s the ideal way of perceiving success or failure.

Ali Al-Aradi,
HRD Lecturer.

With reference to the Whisperer column in last week’s issue, I hope the owner of Fluffy the cat is able to find the family’s pet. Can I suggest she visits the Isa Town market which often has pretty animals in cages for sale, where they come from is anyone’s guess.

Concerned pet lover,
Bahrain.

So mobile phones are welcomed in the classroom (ref last week’s Page 1 story headlined Smart way to learn). Is there no place safe from these monstrosities – restaurants, cinemas, living rooms, offices and now even schools? What’s wrong with learning from a book, most of today’s world leaders and entrepreneurs were satisfied with a simple pen, paper and reference book and they haven’t done so badly.

Grumpy and disillusioned,
Saar.