#2- What is success?

I believe success can be whatever you wish it to be. I believe success revolves around contentment and comfort. Most people associate success with money and fame, however, there are always faults to that type of success. Most of those people become overwhelmed by their greed and want for more; it almost becomes a state of being spoiled. They typically have other people "less fortunate" than they are to do they're work. But what does that teach them? They will never know the hardships and the meaning of being successful because they did not put the hard work, time and compassion into daily tasks that makes life worth living. Though, there are some people have proven their success, meaning they have worked hard and appreciated every step of the way; they do not take their success for granted and remain humble about such great events. If someone is doing what they love, works hard, is content and does remains humble, I believe they are successful. Every one of us has a slight success per day whether it is holding the door for someone and receiving a thank you, receiving an A on a test, or going to the gym and working out. It doesn't matter if you are a maid, waitress, CEO of a large company, a lawyer of a well known law firm, a head doctor of the department of diagnostics, an auto mechanic or a teacher, everyone is successful in their own way; success is what you make of it, no one can judge and put a price on your success.

#1 "Catastrophe of Success"

The essay, "Catastrophe of Success", opened my eyes a bit. We all dream of becoming of having a lot of money to do what we please with in the future. But is that really success? In my eyes, success is whatever makes you happy. If you pursue what you love in life, and you continue to enjoy it, then you have achieved success. I look at success the way Williams does in his essay; success is whatever you want it to be. For some, yes success is having myriads of money and "nice" things but for others, like myself and Williams, success is much more simple, yet deeper than that. I believe Williams hit the nail on the head when he experienced success himself. He references hotel service and how it is more embarrassing for him to be served, than for the servers themselves, which most people look at in a different light. It is embarrassing to be so conceded and dependent of other people. If you are successful from the start, where do you go from that point on? Your life will be dull and that feeling of being content, can never be fulfilled. However, I do believe that Williams took it a bit too far as I read a  portion of his essay as if he were stating successful people are spoiled. If a successful person is content, humble and hard working, then I do not believe they are spoiled.