Is success everything?

There are a lot of books and materials about how to be successful these days. Most of these books are oriented on how to accumulate wealth. Becoming rich has become synonymous to being successful in our time. It was not then. Money has somehow become the measure of one’s success.
I believe that success is more than stuffing yourself with a lot of stuff!
The accumulation of wealth cannot be the standard of success. Life is far deeper than amassing of material things. Success cannot also be just about power and prestige, for that too fades away and does not necessarily add anything to a person’s being.
So what does being successful means?
The ultimate success is to be a successful human being. A successful person is someone who is fully alive. Someone who uses all that is good in him and all his talents to make this world a better place. He is a person who finds joy and meaning in life. In the same time he is also a source of joy, light and hope to others. Money, power and fame are only a means he uses to make this world a better place.
External successes will always fade away, as time fades away. But success that happens from within us, in our souls, will stay with us. Whatever success we have accomplished in our souls, we will take it to eternity.
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” - William James