essay 1-success

                Success is referring to a condition when people had achieved their goal or simply means, the opposite of failure. When talking about success, who is the person that first appear in your mind? For most people, they will visualize success as a very rich man. Most of businessmen such as Donald Trump often think that “Money is everything”. According to Forbes, Trump’s wealth was valued at $2.9 billion in September 2011. However, he still has never stopped multiplying his wealth. He still owned Trump’s tower, some casinos and other investments. Therefore, earning more and more money influence the way they lead their lives. However, let’s think about a good guy like Mahatma Gandhi, or a very powerful one like Adolf Hitler. Eventually they don’t have a lot of money, but still they can be defined as a successful person. Consequently, success can be interpreted in many ways that also affected the life of people who believed in it. The other most common types of success beside in term of money are spiritual and power.

                Mahatma Gandhi is a successful person in spiritual in term of resisting desires for material gratification and devoting his life in spiritual realm. He is honored as Father of the Nation and his birthday had become International Day of Non-Violence. Time magazine named Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930. Gandhi was also the runner-up to Albert Einstein as "Person of the Century". Born on 2 October 1869, living with a devout mother and non-violence tradition really influenced him, thus take an important role in his adult life. He leaved India to study Indian law and jurisprudence in London. Moreover, he became interested in religious thought. He decided to become vegetarian, mutual tolerance among individuals minded and he went trough self-purification. Gandhi successfully became the first to apply non-violence in the political fields. Beside that, Gandhi always lives in simplicity. He dressed up like common Indian and sometimes borrows a cloth from his Indian workers friend. He believed in inner peace and treated everyone humbly. In his religion life, he practiced Hinduism and rejected all efforts to convert him to a different faith. But if he was asked about his religion, he will answer that he is also Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist, as he believe all of the religion is same, taught about kindness. One of his philosophy, "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always" shows how he look at his life and affects his mind in going through his life.

                Adolf Hitler is successful in power, as he controlled lot of followers who obeyed him and he was a big influence in his era. Born on 20 April 1889, he already fixated on warfare after finding a picture book about the Franco-Prussian War among his father's belongings. Hitler served as a runner on the Western Front in French and Belgium in World War I. Kept impressing his mentor with his orator’s skill, Hitler slowly entered into politics. One of his mentors introduced him to a wide range of people in Munich society. He joined the party as a chairman with 3680 members. He became a candidate in presidency in 1933 with 17.277.180 votes, or 44% of all votes. He gained more control power after he became the chancellor of Germany. Beside that, he is also the idea behind Nazism. All of the followers of this ideology, think that German people is number 1 and they are racism-minded. He also had an important role against Britain in World War II. Thus, Adolf Hitler had a big influence and he dedicated his life to gain more power, also led his thousands of followers.

                As a conclusion, success can be defined in other way that can made people going through their life with a different ways.  Think about it, what kind of success you will choose in your life? Which factor that you want to gain most, money, spiritual, or power? Actually, success can be affected by people’s mind and their environment. This paradigm will absolutely change how they think and lead their life. In the future more and more people will chase their success by earning a lot of money. As nowadays, the world has become more modern and peaceful, thus most of things can be done using money. But to keep in mind, human being must balance all of the success factors. Having enough money and power, also keep in touch with their religion is ideal for successful life. At the end, as long as people do and gain something based on what they believe, they can be success in their own life.