Honors English II
22 January 2013
Success
Some might say that success is reaching a goal. This is only half of the truth. I would define success as the process you go through to complete a task. This process may be hard and require talent, or it can be as simple as doing it when nobody else has; either way, success feels great.
A hard working student, let’s call her Sally, always listens to the teacher in class. Sally does her homework every single night. In preparation for tests, Sally studies, sometimes to the edge of dawn. In reflection of Sally’s hard work, the graded test laid on her desk has a perfect score written right on the top. The work Sally has done has paid off, and Sally feels successful.
A student who is the total opposite of the good student Sally is, let’s call him Joey, pays all his attention in class to a texting conversation under the desk. Joey’s idea of finishing homework is copying other students’ answers, without a thought in mind. The only things Joey studies until dawn are status updates. When it comes to tests, Joey relies on a neighbor’s paper. When the teacher handed the tests back Joey has a one hundred percent.
It doesn’t take studying to realize that this doesn’t exactly match up. Cheating and dishonesty was involved making this “success” not belong to Joey but to Sally who actually did listen in class and did her homework and then studied that homework until she knew it inside and out. Only two people out of the entire class had one hundred percent accuracy on the test. Sally and all the other students know how Joey is when it comes to schoolwork. Joey had cheated off of Sally. Sally’s pride in her hard work is diluted down knowing that all Joey had done successfully is cheated resulting in a good grade. Joey didn’t even care about what grade was on the top of the paper. Joey hadn’t done the work.
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Success isn’t just how hard something was to accomplish, but also who else had accomplished the task big or small. The vacuum at church has been used so much that it is really falling apart, and it has been in this state for quite some time. The electrical cord is showing wires. Ductape has been wrapped around the handle in a failed attempt to keep it attached to the rest of the apparatus. The lever, which has a full time job holding the cord when it’s all wrapped up, working on the side rotating so that when the janitor cleans she doesn’t have to waste time unwinding the cord but instead turns the lever downward and the wrapped up cord falls off in one second, had become so loose that it quit it’s full time job and was only good at the side work – dropping the cord on the floor. This one problem was untouched, ignored, not even thought about. I, the janitor, was perplexed by the situation it put me in once every week when it was time to clean. I had to hold the lever in the upright position while I wrapped the cord around and around. Looking at the lever I observed that it was held on by just a washer and screw. All that had to be done to fix the lever was tighten the screw. I just happen to keep a multi-tool in my purse for situations like this. Using the Philips screwdriver attachment to tighten the screw was not hard at all. No skill was required, yet once I was done there was a strong feeling of success. Out of all the men at church who are to keep up the maintenance, I was the one who took action fixing the problem. I had walked on grounds unknown to man. It simply felt good.
Success was had when Sally worked her butt off applying her study skills and time to earn the good grade she received. Success is too found when you do something that hasn’t yet been done before by those around you. Getting things done is good and all, but it’s not what is done, but how it’s done that is my definition of success.
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