I just wanna be successful

"Try not to become a person of success. Rather become a person of value."
In the graphic novel Persepolis Marjane's father doesn't look to achieve success but, looks to be of value to society. He took photos of the demonstration so others could see it in hopes of informing more people of what was going on. It was forbidden and hen even was arrested for it. Taking the photos for him wouldn't bring him much wealth, publicity, or anything but he was contributing to his people, which to me is more important on a grader scale. he sacificed himself for the improvment of society. Although I think others being of value to society is great and all but I want to be more successful than anything. Not in the sense that I want money and all that stuff but being succesful to me means having an achievement and completing it. I want to succesfully achieve my goals and if it changings the industries I want it to change then it will be of value to others. I think that Being someone of value and being someone of success go hand and hand. I think anyone of value is sucessful. As of now on a grand scale I have little to nothing in terms of being "successful" or what I define it as... I think I am of value to my family friends but now I want to keep that value and combine it with the success I want to have.

Currently I'm about in the middle*maybe little closer to the end* of persepolis and even though it does have a storyline and point to it all... I can easily see myself wanting more. Although it is story driven it has just little extra adventures such as that maid attempting to send love notes to the neighbor. I could easily see this being a weekly comic strip or something but alas it is based on a true story so it must come to an end. I think it should wrap up events nicely but knowing that more probably did happen kinda irritates me. Besides all that other than the laughs it gave me I was able to learn a little more about middle eastern people and see that theyare, humans just like us... and arent just crazy bombers who pray all the time. I hope that I can be able to look back on my life as Marjane has and be able to want to write about it. I was talking to my brother yesterday and he was just saying that hes starting to lose his interest in music after quitting his job and moving back to chicago and hes only 23, my other brother isn't so happy either and hates his job. After looking at them... I really would like to be atleast somewhat on my way to my career and I hope I can be able to just be doing what I love. I want to be able to wake up in the morning and want to get on with my day. I hope that at 28 I haven't had my best days behind me. I want my life to constantly be getting better. I will try my best to pursue my happiness and try to understand the world around me as Marjane looks back on her past mistakes of her own and her parents and tries not to repeat them. You always want to be better than your role model.