Success in life is defined by our purpose in life

Question from the Internet:

What in life would be considered a success?

It depends on what we want to achieve. We cannot measure success or failure unless we have a final, overall goal we want to reach. Otherwise, we have nothing to measure against.

So we need to set such an overall goal, the purpose for us so we have the “flagpole on top of the mountain” we can aim at and make efforts towards.

At this stage most people try to set goals, purpose according to our usual instinctive (food, sex, family) and social (wealth, power, fame, knowledge) desires or their combination. And since these goals, the goalposts are constantly changing according to the actual values, bandwagons, fashion of the general environment, we find ourselves in a labyrinth we cannot find our way out from.

Fortunately, we have an overall, unchanging role, purpose Nature’s evolution predetermined for us. If we research, recognize, and accept this evolutionary Human purpose, then we will have the right, unchanging “flagpost” we can constantly follow and measure against.

And frankly, we do not have any free choice about accepting the role, purpose Nature determined for us according to its plan and laws. We will have to find and fulfill that role, purpose either consciously, proactively, by our own efforts, or Nature will push, force us to it through increasing blows and intolerable suffering.

Thus it is wiser to start researching, finding, and fulfilling our evolutionary Human goal, to measure our success and failure against it always a step ahead of the blows — not like how Humanity has been developing (blindly stumbling) until now.