Success

By Prem Prasad Sigdel

Success is the condition of achieving benefit by a person or group by using the best use of opportunity given by the members or the condition. Such condition has been regarded as a remarkable moment in a person’s life getting something special. A successful person is popular being appreciated by others. He has been able to get recognized having responsibility that has been assigned by the benefactors. The success helps to keep him above than others in position for a certain period of time. Indeed, success is time-bound, rule-bound and context specific. Or it has been an opportunity to perform one’s quality in a certain time.

It can be understood into two ways like individual and competitive success. An individual success has no opponents because a person has been awarded for his talent. He has got success with his individual effort which does not affect others directly. For example, success in education; a person has been awarded with degree which has no effect for others. It is gained by personal effort which has been one of the distinctive aspects. This is hassle free because it does not have relation with others. It is solely individual because it is related to him having no opponent. Such success helps to build his life making him able to perform different duties. It has been recognized by many without interest; however, some enemies, a natural perspective, may oppose him. There is no chance of sharing to others; or it has been impossible to distribute or share with others.

On the other hand, competitive success assists a person to get success defeating others. So the situation seems hostile yet coordinating. It happens with like partners who have shared common purpose. It is also observed in juridical process where rules or system has been working. There are certain pros and cons of competitive success where some interests have worked directly or indirectly. This sort of success is spirited yet challenging because your success is other’s failure! In this way, this kind of success is relative as it has affected people from various perspectives. This success is conditional with time, rule, qualification, and situation.

It is challenging when it is the cause of loss for others so the successful person should be more responsible. The value of loser is also not insignificant because of his contribution of making someone winner. People often neglect the loser praising the winner, or they have made one boss or slave putting them in different weighing scale. Such success has been full of conditions which we have often recognized as rules, regulations, laws or systems. They have been made to control persons, organizations, or nations according to their feasibility. Different criteria have been set for election so it seems more complicated. There are boundaries because they have been guided by different organizations like political, professional, and other business groups.

Having success is a challenging yet difficult task because of its impermanent nature. Most elections lasted in a certain period of time; then, the same process would repeat. We cannot experience success every time due to various circumstances. However, devotion towards work and benefactors may ensure success again. People may face much problem pursuing success in their life. We can take example of different persons and situations around the world, most often the success of political leaders.

There is dialectic relation between success and failure. Success can be achieved when a person is ready to lose. It has been so uncertain that people need to undergo different rules related to their organizations. We can take example of an election in which a candidate wins others, may be one or more individuals. This kind of success is paradoxical: however, it has been accepted as democratic process in the world. Suppose that a candidate is successful by 1 or more votes in first-past-the-post system. A successful candidate should get more votes which may be quite less in total. If we count total vote, he may get only 10 or 20% vote altogether. He has been declared winner among others where majority of vote has been secured by losers! The person who has got more has been the winner according to the criteria. A serious question can be raised regarding the voting system and other factors like managerial, political, social, and media effects. Indeed, it has been acceptable because rules have been made to make the system reliable. These rules have bypassed different alternatives being mechanical. So we have forgotten the loser as the main pillar of success.

Indeed, the competitors have been eager to fight for election or to get success. They often make factions or even alliances to get success. Some of them use money and other sorts of bribery to win election! In this way, one of the losers is the winner! Because, the vote what he has got is less vote in total; still he is successful! In this way, the system they make is ridiculous because people have been fighting one another making themselves fool! In fact, they have been trying to get title of winner or loser! Has it been the condition that we want for? Do we really get success getting 20% (more or less)?  Where are 80% (more or less) votes and candidates? Who can claim that democracy is wrong! Who can claim that oligarchy is right! In the name of democracy, we have been making ourselves fool. Democrats! Who the winner has been! What is the achievement in real?

We can also judge it from structural and meaningful perspectives. Structural success has been getting much value in comparison to meaningful success. The person who believes on structural success can take part in such impermanence and get success. The person who has got meaningful success remains away from it. A meaningful success has close connection with the personal success because it does not have more drawbacks. The competitive success has been less valuable because it has been one of the parts of structural successes with different conditions. Are the conditions in/complete? Is success meaningful?