Definition Essay: The Price Of Success

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” As you watch mainstream media you notice that the rich and successful are always joyful and confident. This eludes you from the hard work it takes for someone to become successful. Main stream media has falsely popularized the true definition of being successful. Many people start to believe that you’re only successful if you own an enormous house with multiple rooms that you can sleep in a new room each night, or having luxurious cars, owning expensive items, traveling anywhere you want at any given time, but in fact the true meaning of success is far from that. In

this paper I intent to utilize how the word successful had a great impact throughout my life.

Throughout many peoples childhood they were told to work hard so one day they can make lots of money. The word success takes many different forms and has different interpretations of it. For most people the amount of money you have in your bank account is used to measure their level of success. For this type of person achieving success starts with going to college. Without an education you will be at a disadvantage when it comes to the job markets available. Once one has graduated and has obtained a well-paying job he or she is on his or her way to becoming successful. Most people send their whole lives making money in order to satisfy their needs and desires. Such as owning a home, many take pride in these materialistic things. For these type of people success can’t be achieved without some form of education.
What success means to me can total be different from someone else. If you were to ask me the true definition of being successful. I would tell you it’s setting a goal and doing anything in your power to accomplish it and when you look back you knew you gave it your all.

As a child I loved working with computers and made it my mission to learn as much as I can and someday become a computer engineer.

There has been times were I came close of not accomplishing my goals, instead of giving up, I used that failure to encourage me to try harder and do better. The thought of my family depending on me to provide for them in the future just helps me keep moving forward. They invest everything they have in my education because they believe that I will someday do something great. my uncle once told my brothers and I that before he leave earth to go up into heaven he would like to see one of us make it in life, go on to become an important and wealthy in the eyes of others. These few words have stuck with me throughout my childhood. It have been my motivation, my words of guidance when I felt like I’m in a hole. I cannot even describe how much those words and uncle means to me. I can literally say without the help of my uncle besides God, and my parents I would not be here today. Thinking about it I do not even know if I would been alive.

My uncle was the true definition of success, at a young age he set a goal to be successful no matter what it took. He went through so much to be where he is right now. There were times where things didn’t go his way, but he chose not to give up. He built his business from the bottom up. Instead of spending the money he earned on materialistic items. He invested it in his family. He used his success to help me and my family

obtain proper documents in order to move to America.

The word success can be interpreted in many different ways, for some it is owning a big house and materialistic items, for others it’s having lots of many, but I believe that the true meaning of success is setting a certain goal and doing anything in your power to accomplish the goal.