Which is often the measure of success is usually referring to the title of scholarship, high position, wealth and abundance. One important lesson which we consider are worthy of every success that contain risks and pitfalls. The higher the position one and the abundant wealth, the degree of risk is also greater.
Various cases of former regents, members of parliament, governors, and ministers are now in jail after after serving as proven risk of corruption is a real example of a success and failure. They succeed when struggling, and crawling up the ladder step by step, but it failed to maintain the momentum and achievements.
Many people who stand to suffer, but can not stand when it had succeeded in becoming wealthy. I often see some famous people who suffered as a student, but after a successful and materially change its behavior drastically. They grudge with his past. Instead of gratitude, they behave and live spree to avenge his past suffering. Success like this is a successful model and pseudo-character only for a moment.
An old advice that says, failure is the teacher who teaches adult life, thus potentially promising failure to success in tomorrow. This advice actually has a dual message. Another message is that behind the success of always saving potential failure. Like a man climbed a tree, the higher the climb, the wind blowing harder and the higher distance to fall or possible collapse.
Similar advice comes from the wisdom of China, yin-yang, that the motion of life is not always moving forward, but like a round ball that you scroll to different directions. Yin-yang here invites us to see the problems of living in a dialectical and comprehensive, rather than linear-parsialistik. A social research in the United States (U.S.) states, serbalinier life, luxurious, and always get the protection of parents turned out instead to improve quality of life of adolescents, but in fact they are damaging the mental and moral.
Different from his parents' generation full of fighting spirit, the younger generation is spoiled by the luxury of U.S. material is very low sense of social responsibility. So the social implications of development which is too impartial to increase GNP but less attention to the principles of morality such as justice, honesty, democracy and human rights as well as building a high pole set up, but forget the foundation.
Was to be expected, the building was extremely vulnerable and perishable shocks. History records many success stories that this is temporary and superficial. Sense of success that turned out to deliver this catastrophe had also experienced by scientists. When the beginning of the atomic bomb was found, the community of scientists whooped with delight as they achieve success.
But pride had disintegrated into grief and profound sorrow that the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when it was finally sunk by him. Here we find paradoxes of culture. So we can admire the grandeur of building the Taj Mahal in India. However, critical mind will ask, how much public money was drained just to meet the ambitions of the king? How many thousands of casualties when the buildings were built the pyramids in Egypt?
Is it true that magnificent Borobudur was built on a voluntary basis the people? Similar questions can of course be extended. There was what the authorities called a success, the community may be seen opposite. A district, for example, could be felt happy and successful when it inaugurated an asphalt road connecting the towns and villages.
But has it ever pack district conducts research seriously, is there a way this actually works to increase the economy of the villagers or just the opposite, namely the dominance of middlemen memperlicin city over rural farmers? By listening to the political history of back sheets and power, the so-called victory and success of the ruling regime is not always synonymous with the triumph of reason and conscience of the people.
Like the motion in quantum physics, the pendulum motion of life is not always teleological and determinist. Only they could avoid the syndrome of "peak position" that would never fall, as well as those who can escape from the trap of "the bottom" it will not ever worry trampled. In this regard the Prophet Muhammad's life journey is very interesting precedent.
He was never in a position that very suffering, being chased and trying to kill disayembarakan, but never as well as a very successful king of kings respected friends and foes. Although the Prophet lived pendulum swinging from one extreme to the polar extremes on the contrary, personal and behavior do not change, always at the midpoint, at a moderate line.
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