3. Success Changes People- What Do You Think?

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3. Success changes people- what do you think?

Fame and fortune, is that really success? So what is success really? To me, success is becoming who you’ve aspired to be and achieving all the goals you’ve set for yourself. It is conquering all the obstacles that stood in your way and defeating your opponents morally. It is upholding the moral values which were instilled in you since young. But success doesn’t necessarily mean being wealthy and well-known. It doesn’t mean anything if you couldn’t care less about your family. Having all the money in the world and yet, you spend it all on yourself. Have you thought about how tiresome it was to bring you up? Support your school fees, tuition fees, extra curricular classes? Thus, being filial is important. It tells a lot about one’s personality and being.

Success comes in two forms- ill success and good success. Ill success is attaining prosperity and achieving desired aims by using unnatural means. The person would resort to any solution just to accomplish his goals. By hurting loved ones around the victim, they would become a threat and becomes easier for the person to acquire his targets. Sabotaging is also another method of attaining ill success. It is a common situation where a person puts all the blame onto an innocent co-worker or even close friend. Some people would resolve to hurting really close ones for their own benefit. Hence the phrase “the closest ones hurt you the deepest”.

Iago from Othello is an example. He is the most villainous character in all of William Shakespeare’s plays. Mostly based on rumours and assumptions that Othello slept with Iago’s wife, Emilia, his life mission becomes dedicated to “successfully” destroying Othello- his and Desdemona’s marriage. He pours pestilence into Othello’s ears and blinds Othello in jealousy. When Emilia gets hold of Desdemona’s handkerchief, a symbol of love from Othello, that was his last step to success....