Essay : Money is not the only measure of success in life

For most people in our modern-capitalism world, money is the first thing, and sometimes the only thing
that measures success in their life. Money can buy power. Money can buy fame. Money can buy time.
Sometimes money can even buy a life. So money has become the first common goal for everybody.
However, there is something else that can be the measurement of success in life.
One important thing that defines success in our lives is our careers. With different careers, we will have
different goals and measurements of our success. If you are an athlete, your success can be measured
by lots of things such as wining tournaments, breaking records, playing in the top league or competing in
the Olympics. If you are a scientist, the success in your life will mostly depend on your researches. One
line of formula that can prove your theory is true can be the great success in your life. If you are a writer,
you will probably succeed if your book gets on the best-selling shelf in the bookstore or if your works get
published in a magazine. If you are a musician, playing in the countrys orchestra or a number of your
CDs that have been sold can be counted as the measurement of your success. So we can see that
another measurement of success in your life besides money is how much you have succeeded in your
career.
Success in human life is often measured by numbers. Therefore, everything that can be counted can be
used as a measurement. Again, these measurements vary with each career. If you are an athlete maybe
it is the number of tournaments or the number of matches you have won. But if you are a writer, it is
probably the number of your books that have been sold out or if you are a musician it might be the
number of your CDs. Sometimes it could be even a silly thing like the number of girlfriends you have. In
fact, it is human nature that we always want to compare ourselves to others. In almost every career there
is money involved, and maybe that is the reason why people always look at money as primary
measurement of their success - they can easily compare it with the others.
The other measurement of success in our lives is awards. For the scientists one of the greatest
accomplishments in their life is to win a Nobel Prize, for the writers there is the Pulitzer award, for actors
and actresses there is an academy award, for musicians a Grammys and so on. These things are
different from the other measurements in that it is judged by other people not ourselves.
Besides those measurements we can compare them with other people or let other people measure our
success, sometimes just accomplishing our wishes or dreams can be measures of success in our lives.
So it does not matter that you have won the world championships or just the tournament in your school,
working in the biggest company in the country or just set up your small company. If it is your dream, you
have already succeeded in your life.
The common goal in peoples life is to be peaceful and happy. Being the richest man in the world does not
mean you are the happiest man in the world, although money can buy you happiness sometimes, but not
always. So another measurement of success you are in your is how happy your life is. It might be having
a warm family and children, having lots of friends or maybe just having someone who truly loves you.
In addition, as times change, the measurement of success in life also changes. For examples, wealth,
thing that many people use to judge success in ones life, is changing when time has passed. Thousands
of years ago when humans were still a cavemen, it might have been how big you cave was. Hundreds of
years ago it might have been how big your land was. Today it is how much money is in your bank
account, so maybe in the future it might be something else.
In conclusion, the measurement of success in your live can be many things. It just depends on time, what
goals you have and who is the one doing the judging Money is just the first common, one but it is not the
only one.

Essay on Where there is a Will, There is a way

by Swaroop Rout | category Essay
Will-power is the greatest driving force in man. It helps him get through all the
difficulties in life. Will-power is the most essential ingredient of success. It enables a
person to find a way to overcome the obstacle in his path. He continues his journey
towards his chosen goal. A man who loses heart at the sight of failure can never achieve
his goal. But a man who is determined to attain his objectives is not disheartened by
failures. One should not lose heart during adversities.
The real essence of life lies in struggle. Determination and calmness help a person in his
Endeavour. They provide him inspiration to achieve success. A wise man accepts the
challenges of life with a calm mind. Our ancient scriptures also advocate that one should
do one duty with determination. One should have a firm determination to strive and
win.
Many great men won success by their sheer determination and oneness of purpose.
Mahatma fought for the blacks in South Africa, His strong will-power helped him to
secure independence for Indian from the British rule. Martin Luther brought about
radical changes in the USA. Nelson Mandela fought against racial discrimination in
South Africa. Abraham Lincoln became the President of the USA by dint of his strong
determination and continuous efforts.
Different people have different objectives in life. In may range from a career in
administration, a career in engineering, medicine, law, management, etc. to
entrepreneurship. They achieve success by their strong will power. Where there is a will,
there is a way. Even the handicapped could achieve success by their strong will-power
and determination. Beethoven became deaf before he made his famous Ninth
Symphony. John Milton wrote Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson
Agonistes after he became blind.
A patient with strong determination can get cured earlier or live longer than a similar
patient with weak will power. Helen Killer was both blind and deaf, but she became an
educator of the blind. Louis Braille was also a blink educationist. He introduced the
Braille script for the blind. Sudha Chandran has an amputated leg, but even with the
artificial limb, she has become a famous Bharatnatyam dancer and actress. Thus, a

person of strong will power can overcome physical disabilities i the pursuit of his goal.
He can overcome social barriers as well.
Mans strong desire and will-power have led to the discovery of unknown lands. He has
been able to go to the depths of the ocean. It is this spirit which has enabled man to
climb peaks like Mount Everest. He explored space and landed on the moon. Similarly,
there have been revolutionary achievements in the fields of transport and information
technology. there are major breakthroughs in the field of medicine and engineering. The
achievements of mankind till date are the products of strong determination and willpower.
However, people do become victims of adverse circumstances. Their efforts are hardly
rewarded with success. They become dispirited, disillusioned and disheartened. They
lose the will to fight. They become pessimistic in their attitude. But they should not lose
heart because success always follows by the day, so one should not lose hope.
Each one of us has the potential to do things we dream of. We just have to make a
beginning with all the true and consistent efforts and we will discover that everything
will fall in its right place. We must try and strive for something only then we will succeed
in achieving out goals.
Patience, commitment to the objectives and perseverance certainly yield rich results.
One should have an aim in life. One should strive hard for achieving it. Success in not
restricted to a few. It can be achieved by anyone who dares to go for it. One should have
a positive approach towards life. There are many who undergo despair, failure and
defeat. But their determination to win and achieve takes them forward. We should live
every moment and live life to the full. We should count out the negatives and challenge
ourselves to design the best life. Never forget, where there is a will, there is a way !

Where there is a Will, There is a way

It is a time-tested saying and is hundred per cent correct. If you have a desire to accomplish a thing, you
will find out the necessary means for its fulfillment. The thing will be got done certainly. There will be no let
or hindrance. The idea behind all this is: first stand up, gird up your loins, make a firm resolve, ponder
over the details of the plan and you will see the plan is fully carried out. There arises no hitch. It is all a
smooth sailing.
The important thing is to have the requisite will, the wish to do anything. If you do not dream of good
things of life, you will never be able to perform them in the first attempt. Though after a fair number of
trials, you may succeed. The simple story of the thirsty crow is just is just a feeler for all of us. The crow
was thirsty. He flew in search of water here and there. The basic thing is the thirst of the crow. Under the
duress of the thirst he thought of a number of ways to quench it. His act of flying, gathering of pebbles
and putting them in the pitcher are the means but not the beginning and the end of the whole endeavor.
Here we must remember that the will of the crow is paramount. His being thirsty is greatly important. Had
he not been thirsty, he would have not incurred the trouble of flying here and there and gathering of
pebbles would have not arisen at all. We have seen in the story that the way to quench thirst follows
automatically. It is a natural outcome. It is the natural result of the will of the crow.
We students can learn a noble lesson from this simple story. Let us have the will to study. Let us awake,
arise and the goal is achieved. Let us pre-determine the destination. Now to reach it there will be many
lanes and by-lanes, many paths will come into sight on their own. Your first and foremost job was kindling
the fire. The rest would follow spontaneously. If I am sleeping, I can never reach the winning post. To cut
the matter short, we should have the required amount of will, the way will beckon us.

The Effects of Scientific Development on Society

Our basic objective is to examine the scientific developments through history and how they affect human
life and society. To meet that objective we will first develop tools to analyze the relationship between
science and the increasingly complex decisions we have to make regarding the way we apply science for
human welfare.
If we have learned anything at all about the uses of science in the second half of this century, it is that it
has had an unmistakable influence on contemporary trends and outcomes. Science has helped to make
the world smaller, spatially, and larger, numerically. It has multiplied our choices and scaled up our risks.
Based on science we have put humans into space and opened a new arena for warfare. Science has
illuminated human beginnings and shaken age-old postulates about human worth and destiny. Science

has unlocked material abundance and laid new burdens on irreplaceable resources. It has expanded
human potential and dramatized human limits. It has advanced clarity and magnified uncertainty. It has
penetrated the deepest reaches of knowledge and held a world hostage on the edge of crisis.
We have no reason to suppose that science will abate its influence upon trends and outcomes and many
reasons to expect that it will continue to shape society's choices and dilemmas. What is unprofitable is to
try to outguess the rate of advancing knowledge and the forms and effects of its application through
technology. But it is a very different matter to recognize and array the emergent national and global issued
confronting humans on this planet and to explore with care the contributions that science could make in
managing such issues.
Each of us lives with a modern paradox; how can we continue to enjoy the benefits of science and avoid
the threat of its misuse or abuse to endanger life and nature? Responses to this paradox have been
many, but seldom anything but emotional and impotent in making any useful changes. Among the
strongest feeling brought forth by our increasing awareness of the negative side effects of technology has
been the feeling of alienation - that we in society have little or no control over the impacts of science and
technology on those of us who are supposed to be their beneficiaries.
We owe much to science. In fact modern life would be unthinkable without it. Not just because of the
"things" it offers but because of the density of people on the planet and our inability to feed, clothe or
shelter ourselves without the power over nature we gain through science. But we are also becoming
aware to the "dark side of the force." The peril of nuclear holocaust, while drastically diminished in the last
few years, still threatens everyone on Earth. However the destruction of the environment, the difficulty of
disposing of the enormous waste produced each day, the abuse of technology for economic manipulation
are almost as equally alarming.
What are our choices? Abandon science? Ignore the dangers and continue on, full speed ahead?
Regardless of the burdens of science, society is not likely to turn it off. We have already rejected that
prescription proposed by the flower children of the 1960s. We would find survival too difficult, and we
would miss too much of the future promises that science and technology offer.
Full speed ahead and ignore the consequences? Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer on a network radio
talk-show who might advocate just this approach. He argues that notions of disappearance of rain forests,
holes in the ozone layer, and nuclear waste are frauds on the public and designed to keep enterprising
people from earning a reasonable profit. There are no problems with technology, he argues, and if there
were, we could apply technology to fix them.
But the validity of this attitude is also belied by unpleasant surprises like Three Mile Island, Bhopal, and
Chernobyl disasters. Are these the necessary consequences of technological advance? Are they really an
insignificant price to pay for the benefits of science and technology? No, there is a third alternative which
can help us resolve the paradox. We can continue to enjoy the benefits of technology but we must also

identify the unwanted side effects and abuses, deliberate or unexpected. These unwanted results of
technology must be controlled and that control will require making tradeoff decisions. Thus we have the
third alternative: advance and control.
How we do this, of course, requires considerable analysis and thought. That analysis and thought is the
substance of this course. Consider our increasing national reliance on science and technology to maintain
national security. By focusing on the tradeoff decisions we will, however, identify some of the most
important issues which we must learn to do better with in the future. According to Jonathan Schell,
"Scientific progress may yet deliver us from many evils, but there are at least two evils that it cannot
deliver us from: its own finding and our own destructive bent. This is a combination that we will have to
learn to deal with by some other means.
So in this site we will look at those issues of science associated with human decision-making As Jonathan
Schell says in Fate of the Earth, "If, given the world's discouraging record of political achievement, a
lasting political solution seems almost beyond human powers, it may give us confidence to remember that
what challenges us is simply our extraordinary success in another field of activity -- the scientific. We had
only to learn to live politically in the world in which we already live scientifically."