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            1 # The Road to Success by josuah
            2 
            3 Success, the holy grail in Life.
            4 Many different forms and shapes.
            5 Marriage? Career? A medal? A stable financial situation? Crossing the border and get naturalized?
            6 So many facets to that same shiny diamond.
            7 
            8 Or does success mean avoiding failure?
            9 In that case, doing nothing means no failure, but trying always have more chance to reach whatever one names "success".
           10 
           11 If failing means that trying did not lead one as far as hoped for, then the next thing to do for getting closer to "success" again is trying again, in risk to fail over again.
           12 And while so, also going a bit closer every time to success.
           13 What is the landmark that distinguish being very close to actually reaching success?
           14 Which indicator to use?
           15 Is it about completing a large project?
           16 Fame?
           17 A position in the company?
           18 And once at the top position of a company, one can still say it was a tiny company and the real goal always was to be at the head of a great company, and that success will be when the company is large enough.
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           20 So if there is no real landmark, if failing is trying but failing to reach an impossible goal, then failing is the result of trying whatever that leads to.
           21 Failure would be the moment that follows any attempt to reach the end of a direction.
           22 Failure would simply be the moment where you look back at where you were before trying, where you are now, and the road left to go to reach infinity.
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           24 Success looks similar: trying to move forward, constantly bumping the objective further as one get closer to it.
           25 Again success is the moment where you look at where you are, and estimate how far you've been.
           26 If success and failure are the same, this suggests that something is wrong somewhere.
           27 Somehow, the ultimate acheivement of every life is death.
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           29 The Road to Success?
           30 This is the same as the road to Failure: this is Life, it leads to Death.
           31 Wherever we go, we will be on it as long as we live.
           32 So now, may we move that idea of Success away so that we can enjoy living our life.