The word "success" comes from the Latin word "succedere" which means "to come close after". The Latin language didn't have the "-ful" suffix, but in English that suffix means "characterized by". So successful, if broken down to it's constituent elements, means something like "characterized by that which comes close after". To make this more acceptable to you, notice how it shares the same root word as "succession". So when things happen in succession, it happens one after the other.
"Steph Curry shot 3's in succession".
That sentence isn't saying he made the shot or he missed the shot, it's simply saying he did it one after the other.
So success is about things happening one after the other (if we were to use the true definition of that word). And if we were to use the true definition of that word... then any story, which is identified as a particular sequence of events bundled together forming a narrative, then it could be viewed as successful because a story is one event happening after another; And this would be accurate to the etiological definition of the word "successful", which when broken down means something like "characterized by that which follows close after".
But that's not how we as a collective use that word.
We've bastardized the meaning of "success" and "successful" to be synonymous with "achievement" or "to conquer", but this betrays the true meaning of the word. Success from it's Latin origins isn't about a singlular moment of glory. It's not about winning and it isn't about separating yourself from others. Success by it's true definition is about what's coming next, and this definition isn't positive or negative in connotation; it applies more to a process rather than an outcome or a result.
Time doesn't move backwards, it only moves forward.
We live in the present moment and have the present moment as our vessel, sailing us from one moment to the next. One experience to the next. One lesson to the next. In a very real way, by simply living and existing, we're embodying the very spirit of success's true definition (which is defined as being characterized by that which comes close after XYZ).
Being successful isn't about something you attain, acquire or achieve, it's the nature of your very being and who you are in essence. Even in your deepest failures, your darkest moments and heaviest insecurities, when you take one breath to the next, when you choose to continue the story... you're being successful.
SOCIAL MEDIAS:
►Instagram: @austinjrb
►Twitter: @austinjrb_
►Snapchat: @austinjrbailey
EMAIL:
►austinjordanrobinsonbailey@gmail.com