In order to be able to talk about success, you start to establish what success means to you and how it can be achieved in the field of interest to which you relate. The steps you will take later will be motivated by this paradigm.
Thus, when we talk about a truly successful life, we are talking about balancing ourselves in the many aspects of life. In order to be able to succeed at something, the important thing is to start doing something.
Is success based on pure talent or is there a recipe for success that can help us achieve our dreams? In fact, I notice that each of the success stories is based on commitment, determination and the desire to fail and get up again.
Stories of hope and triumph are heard and experienced throughout life, moreover, they inspire many of us to seek new paths to success, so let’s discover them.
Ariana.…,,now, in my second year of college, on my second essay, I can honestly say that I don’t have the slightest idea what I could write about ,,recipes for success”.
I can’t say that I’m successful, nor even that I have a method for going through life well. I’m more like a leaf blown by the wind. I don’t know how I manage to do what I do, my biggest stress right now is that one day I’ll ,,eat” my luck and it won’t go ,,easy” anymore. But there’s still time until then. As I like to say: A new day, a new chance to leave everything for tomorrow.
Nevertheless, life is extraordinarily good. A piece of advice from me (a born pessimist): look around you and tell yourself how beautiful life itself is. It may sound strange, but it works for me. When I have a hard or bad day, I like to think that it is a true miracle that at the same time as me, billions of other people are living, also for the first time like me, but a completely different life. What I’m really trying to say is that in difficult times it’s good to take a big step back and look at the whole museum, not just at one painting.
I could complain here about how many problems I have, how stressed I am now on the verge of the session, BUT at the same time I can, want and have to show you some beautiful moments from 2025, which changed my life for the better, which gave me hope. Moments that make me believe that, I don’t have the recipe for success… completed, I’m just at the beginning.
As pleasant memories from 2025: my first car; the day I dyed my hair my natural color, blue; the first time I was in another country without parental figures, and the day my parents gave birth to two of the people I love most.
Here I was a photographer at the biggest event of the year for the volunteer group I work for. Even though I’m not a very active volunteer, I don’t participate in meetings or all sorts of small events, I’m generally the photographer on call.
I realized that you make your own joy. Joy comes from within you. It depends on the people you decide to surround yourself with, it depends on where you decide to spend your time, it depends on the activities you decide to do and whether these truly make you happy.
You are the root of your happiness.
Many may say that I speak like an old woman when I say these things. But in 2025 I realized that fulfilling desires requires a lot of energy. When I look around me and realize that the world is breaking down, arguing, or that we are on the verge of wars, that serious illnesses are increasingly common in young people, in short that everything is going downhill when it’s my time to be an adult, then I have only one wish: to catch another season so beautiful, so peaceful.
Since I started seeing things this way, emotionally at least, I have matured a lot. I have a kind of peace that makes me see that I’m not the only one who feels like I’m running out of time, that I’m not the only one who’s afraid of tomorrow.
As I said about beautiful seasons… The first snowfall of this year was between a Friday and a Saturday. From then until the following Thursday, every day children, adults, puppies, and many sleds gathered to climb the hill in the village where the slope was made. I can say that 2026 came with a very nice surprise for everyone, with a touch of childhood. As for us students who were supposed to be at home studying, how do you think we found out about the slope, if not with our own eyes. Don’t worry, until the session we still have more than 7 days of ,,tomorrow” on which we can postpone learning.
As a small conclusion, I think that for me I am the recipe for success, and I didn’t write the whole story. My story and recipe are just beginning.”
