Success Matters !!

   Success is something everyone cherishes and the whole world celebrates. It has got a tendency to make people proud and happy once they succeed in their endeavors. Society celebrates successful people and celebration is directly proportional to the amount of success achieved by the respective person. Unfortunately people who have failed become unnoticed since they are lost amidst the celebration. World cares only for people who are successful except very few who still are compassionate towards fellow human beings. This topic is better explained through real world examples and some practical situations hence I have listed following six examples.


Example 1: Let us assume person ABC is an Entrepreneur who has multiple businesses and makes lot of money. Since he makes lots of money he also spends quite a bit on celebrations and makes quite a lot of donations for charity to get rid of his black money. Society celebrates person ABC and he is given red carpet wherever he goes. Let us assume person XYZ who makes decent amount of money and nothing compared to ABC. Since XYZ makes little he makes small donations for charity and seldom spends on other things. Now the world categorizes ‘XYZ’ as miserly person …Now should XYZ be upset ? Obviously not since self-satisfaction is much more important than what society says but practically the problem is  XYZ has to coexist in the same society ABC lives and hence success does matter to XYZ.


Example 2: Yuvan Shankar Raja who is a music director in Kollywood has given super duper albums in 2000’s and not just that he has been the Debut director’s Darling; Dheena directed by ARM has music by Yuvan, Thulluvadho ilamai, Kadhal kondaen went to public initially only through his music, Through Nanda we had Suriya establish himself as a performer and once again music by Yuvan, Ameer’s debut Mounam periyadhae had his music, Vishnuvardhan gave Arinthum Ariyamalum which had great music by Yuvan, Venkat Prabhu gave Chennai-28 which had great music by Yuvan and I can keep on going on how many films Yuvan’s music was the selling factor. A phase came where G.V Prakash, Santhosh Narayanan and Anirudh took away his place and he also had setbacks in his personal life like divorce and losing his mom. Now again he is back with a bang with a string of hits especially with Rowdy baby ….When I saw him in Herndon I felt happy for him since he was back doing movies. World does not care when setbacks happen ..but same world celebrates you when you succeed so basically success matters.


Example 3: Now let us assume between two individuals working in an IT company where one is very truthful, straightforward whereas other is dishonest. Whom do you think would be affected ? Obviously person who is truthful is often mislead and eventually laid off. Would the world care what went into the making ? The first thing they say is people should learn to adjust to situations to live in this world and once again proves the fact that once you are successful you have an upper hand.


Example 4: Now how about actors like Bharath, Prashanth ? Both had hits in their career but they could not sustain because they were not able to succeed consistently. If opportunity and good roles would have come their way they would have made it very BIG in kollywood as I like both the actors as they have given some nice movies in the past. When we think of Actor Rahman first thing that comes to our mind is he is relative of AR Rahman and once again our mind subconsciously associates with a successful person. In Pudhu Pudhu arthangal he was so natural and even in recent Dhruvangal Pathinaaru he was brilliant as an actor. Take Arun Vijay for example who was lying low in his career but his recent few films have been hits and once again proves success matters.


Example 5: Let us assume one is very talented and he/she wants to stand in an election of a Non profit organization since there are more than one people standing for the post. No matter how talented you are, you got to win to prove yourself before you can even start doing what you intended to do. Once again success matters.


 As you can see from my examples and practical real world situations Success does matter. People may feel inner harmony, self-satisfaction are more important which is all true but end of the day success plays a crucial role in one’s life and if you want to make your presence felt in the society you have to be successful. In recently movie Kaana there is a dialogue which summarizes my blog in one sentence “Indha Ulagam Jayirchiruvaenu sonna kaekaadhu, aana jeyichavan sonna kekum”