Success to me is when I am able to do something that I set as my goal. It can be things ranging from getting a good grade on a test, getting to know a new friend, finishing an assignment on time or finishing a drawing that I've put aside for a long time. Other people might think themselves successful when they've met the love of their life, bought that house they've always dreamt of or reaching the highest position in a job. However, when you use the word success or successful when you're talking about someone else you're usually talking about a working career, or possibly that someone is successful in life if they have a family and have money. I've never heard someone say "that person is so successful", refering to someone who have finally started to play a music instrument or whatever he or she might have wanted to do.
I set the goals pretty high for myself - if I'd get a grade that to some is a success, but to me one step down in the grading scale, I'd feel that I had failed and I would be disappointed in myself. At the same time, I want to be good at pretty much all the things I do, unless I feel that there is no way that I can be (such as sports), and if I don't live up to my own expectations, I get angry with myself and push myself harder. This is what drives me in life - succeeding in doing the things that I wish to do, and doing it well. It's also my definition of success - I set a goal, and then I achieve it. Sometimes these goals are not about work in any way, but in social connections, such as I decide that I want to get to know someone better, and if I do, I feel that I have succeeded in befriending him or her. It might sound silly, but I quite often have these goals - to change someone's view on me, to get to know new friends... I think my life would move much slower if I didn't have this drive to succeed in what I do.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Memorable moments
This should be a quite easy subject to think of as the most memorable memory of the year obviously is the memory that first pops up in your head when you start thinking about moments you remember. Sadly, there is no such memory that pops into my head, so I'll just tell you about a few fun things that have happened.
In february, I got a Daily Deviation on my favourite website Devianart. A Daily Deviation (DD) is a feature that is showed on the first page and gives the artist a lot more attention from the members of the site. (Or as Wikipedia put it: A submission deemed by a staff member to be impressive or otherwise interesting enough be brought to the attention of the community-at-large; it is considered to be a great honor within the community. It is commonly known as a DD.) It is indeed a great honor to recieve a DD, as only 20-40 is given out per day on a site which recieves 100,000 new submissions daily. In my case, I got 13,000 new views on the featured drawing - in one day. The next day I had 2,200 new messages in my inbox - comments on the drawing, notes that people had added it to their favourites, notes that people started watching (they'll get a note each time I upload something new), etcetera - about 100 times more than I usually have.
Except from that it's obviously quite memorable that I've met a lot of new friends and been to my first Anime convent, which lasted 3 days and was great fun, however it's hard to describe these events (especially the friend one), as they took place over a long time.
My DD can be found here.
In february, I got a Daily Deviation on my favourite website Devianart. A Daily Deviation (DD) is a feature that is showed on the first page and gives the artist a lot more attention from the members of the site. (Or as Wikipedia put it: A submission deemed by a staff member to be impressive or otherwise interesting enough be brought to the attention of the community-at-large; it is considered to be a great honor within the community. It is commonly known as a DD.) It is indeed a great honor to recieve a DD, as only 20-40 is given out per day on a site which recieves 100,000 new submissions daily. In my case, I got 13,000 new views on the featured drawing - in one day. The next day I had 2,200 new messages in my inbox - comments on the drawing, notes that people had added it to their favourites, notes that people started watching (they'll get a note each time I upload something new), etcetera - about 100 times more than I usually have.
Except from that it's obviously quite memorable that I've met a lot of new friends and been to my first Anime convent, which lasted 3 days and was great fun, however it's hard to describe these events (especially the friend one), as they took place over a long time.
My DD can be found here.
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