Mini Project 2

Tonight I talked to a couple of my sorority sisters, and asked them to sum up what they view success as. First I talked to Bre, who is our President and also leads our Chi Omega Bible Study. She viewed success as following Jesus, and staying on his path he had created for you. She also said He is the only one who knows what our successes will become, so we should embrace it and the the ultimate success she sees is eternity with Him. Second I talked to Lexi, who saw success as helping others. She is really involved with our sorority, and is the newest pledge mom, which is the sister who helps the new members learn our history and everything else dealing with Chi Omega. She sees success as being helpful to others. Next I talked to Nicole, and she was torn between happiness and reaching your goals to what her success meant. But after thinking about it for a while she chose happiness because once you reach your goals, that brings you happiness. So in the long run, if she is truly happy, she knows shes successful. Lastly I sat down with Tori and asked her what she thought the image of success is. She viewed it as college, simply because college was a huge accomplishment in her life and wouldn't be where she is today without setting the goals to reach her end goal of going to college. These are only a couple girl in my sorority who I talked to about success, and each of them have their own success stories. Not many are the same, each of us come from somewhere different, and each of us have our own baggage to how we got where we are. 

Even in the academic conversation people have different success stories. In the article, "The transition to college: Diverse students, diverse stories" it talks about how different and diverse students transition into college from high school, and how each of them aren't the same. Different people, different stories, different successes.  It's normal, because if everyone wanted to have the same type of success then living life wouldn't be as fun, because then we would all have our heads blinded to that one thought, and it's the part of life that's fun when we take our blinders off and see what else is out there. That's why this topic matters to me, because without different types of success, the world wouldn't go around the same. The creative kind of people wouldn't want to have their painting hanging in a museum, or the businessmen and women wouldn't want to become a CEO, and those are the types of dreams people have and think of to become successful. Without diversity, we would all want the same thing, and that's no fun. 

P.S.- Sorry we look gross, it's airband season.