Are you a successful person or a a significant person?

by Fr Jerry Orbos, SVD

Are you a successful person? Congratulations! But, are you a significant person?

A successful person is one who earns and accumulates wealth or honors for himself. On the other hand, a significant person is one who, with or without wealth or honors, affects positively the people around him/her.

Indeed, a person is worth not for what he/she has, not even for who he/she is, but, bit for what others have become because of him/her.