The adventure of unsuccessful success

THE ADVENTURE OF UNSUCCESSFUL SUCCESS

Against the backdrop of my curiosity to know, lead me to scanning of the rèsumè from the doctrinal week held at Ejigbo some weeks back. My article on this thematic topic was however triggered by a portion of the talk on youth choice of career. Hence, this presupposes that this article will be applicable more than not to the terrain of the young ones.

In our society as a whole, many if not every person craves to succeed in one way or the other. Success in this pericope can be regarded as growth. Success however varies from one notion to the other. It can come in positive way, so also it can occur in negative way depending on the individual relative perspectives. To say a student who passed his examination succeeded will be right, so also to say a gang of thieves that went for a robbery operation succeed will be right in another perspective. At this point, one will be forced to ask if there is authentic or ideal success.

The paradox of unsuccessful successes sounds contradictory and impossible. Meanwhile, it is plausible as it sounds. The youth of today are mostly found pitching their tent under this falsified prospects successes. The young ones under this group operate on the pre-notion that ‘the end justifies the means.’ At the heart of this mentality renders the means irrelevant in as much as the end is procured. An average young boy or if you like man will download varieties of lies for a lady just to get her for sex. For him, the end success matters more and not the means. An average lady on the contrary will also long to secure a boy friend for herself just to feel belong to the prevailing trend. At this point I wonder the standard for success the ‘now-society’ is setting for young ones. Indeed, a backup-fired form of success.

In furthering the aforementioned, some young boys in the society have turned themselves to young ritualists, however they claim to be yahoo or smart guys. Today in the society, these set of crooks claim to be most successful amidst their peers. Their ocean of money and assets has given them the impetus to feel they are on the top of the world.  The kind of success young ones here portray is obviously pseudo successes. Indeed, one certain fact is that all these things are contingents. They will go and the repercussions will always back-shoot.

The pseudo adventure does not in any way exclude those who live a fake life. For people like this, virtually everything about them is erroneous and deceptive. They are mostly found in the menace of impersonating during examination, examination malpractices, bribery, advance gambling and other irony adventures. One out of the funny things about these people is that they eat and feed on lies. In fact it has turned out to be their way of life and they think they can succeed through it. The question however is that, how long can one continue to live in pretense?

Ab initio, in one way or the other, everyone is guilty of venturing into realm of exploring unsuccessful successes but the end will always redefine itself in form of repercussion in the long run. The paradox of unsuccessful successes is therefore a form of eroding success that cannot stand the simplest taste of time.

As a way of conclusion to this discuss, it will be apposite to redefine what we often refer to a success. Are they authentic/ideal success or pseudo/unsuccessful success? The society of today can rarely set an ideal standard for success for you and I. Hence, personal conviction is very essential. Any success that one cannot convincingly claim to be the hand pulling its trigger is an unauthentic one, as well as success bias to moral conscience is a mere illusion. Hence the most authentic success should be geared towards attaining an austere reality with the transcendental one.