I want to be successful someday

What does it actually mean to be successful? What role does it play in being happy?

"What's your greatest ambition, kid?" - "I want to be successful someday."

Ambitions and where they come from:

Dreams are super important. Far too few people still dream today and try to make their true wishes come true. For example, those you once had as a child, or those that really come from the bottom of your heart. Instead, I see many people chasing after some dreams that I rather believe are shaped by social media and superficialities.

For example, "I want to drive a Lambo one day to show the guy over there that I'm better than him" or "I want to have Gucchi bags hanging in my closet to show off to others" or "I want to have 100,000 followers on Instagram one day, look like Kim Kardashian and be a successful model".

Are these goals that make us happy? Are these goals that fulfill us? Or are they goals that we lose ourselves in chasing and when we reach them we realize that somehow they don't make us happier after all?

When I look into the eyes and soul of people who have already achieved such goals, I do not always see happiness or contentment. I often see superficialities and values that have little to do with balance or equilibrium. I see relatively much pressure, envy, greed and egoism. And I see people who compare themselves strongly with others and rarely have healthy relationships from the ground up.

But what is actually the highest goal in life? What do we actually want? And why do we chase after these goals that are talked into our heads by anyone or anything, and when reaching them we do not become happier after all? There are people out there who have nothing at all and fight every day for their own survival and the survival of their children. What are their goals in life? To survive. What are our goals in life? Overconsumption and absolute superficiality. Shouldn't we actually live to be happy? Shouldn't our goals actually be aimed at this higher goal?

And don't we go into all this superficiality just because we think it would make us happier to drive a Lambo, to have Gucci-bags hanging in the closet or to feel better than the guy in the front in his Volkswagen without brand clothes and without followers?

When are you successful?:

So what is success? Aren't we actually successful for us when we achieve our personal goals? For me personally, being successful means fulfilling my life goal of being happy and satisfied. Part of this can be doing something good for the world and building something that will be remembered. But most of all, more important than that, my goal is to be a good father, to have a wife who loves me and whom I love, and to raise strong, healthy and happy children together with her. I want to hear a lot of laughter around me, I want to listen a lot to my heart and make the right decisions. If success, as it is defined in society, should also come around, that pleases me. The primary goal, however, is to be satisfied, to have healthy values and not to break down on superficialities.

And what do you think of that?