Are You Successful?

Helped a friend of mine today.... no, it is neither rare nor remarkable that I help a friend, and that is not the reason for this blog. What is remarkable is that I helped him prepare a write-up for a job application.

He was supposed to say if he thought he is successful, and why... a daunting task to me, because for all I have achieved, my inferiority complexes and neuroses simply dont allow me to easily think of myself in the terms "successful" or "achiever".

But here is my friend, more than a decade my junior, and yet with a clear idea of what he has achieved, how much he has learned, and what abilities he can bring to bear when required. And all this articulated with a simple modesty both refreshing and endearing.

Unfortunately, his first attempt to put it in the written word dissolved into a soup of bombast and vague references..... but then, that was what I was there for.

"Tell me..." I said, "Do you think, for a person your age and with your experience, that you are successful?"

And he talked to me for a full minute in plain, simple truth, before realising that was exactly what he had to write.

Good luck my friend. I see a future leader in you.... would that the world not loose its chance.