Many things worry us. I say, there are things in life that we can not change, and we better worry about the things what we can and should change. As individuals, we do not do well or bad because of who is the president of our country. We do well, when we get up every day and go to work or school, and do our best, and do things right. And, although no one notices it, neither the boss nor the teacher value it, I will do it right. Do you know why? Because I do the right thing regardless of people seeing me or not. I do what is right because this makes me a better person and this person is an example for other colleagues, friends, for my children, and my community.

Children are taught to work, study, get up early and do their work, when we parents teach them not with words, but with our own life.

Where do we learn to lie, to cheat, to despise others, to insult, to laugh at moral values, to criticize all who think or are different from us? Where? I hope the answer is not at home.

I have met wonderful people, real fighters who have studied, worked and achieved very good things in their lives. Also, I have met people who having everything, home, food, travel, cars, luxuries, attending the best schools in the country, have wasted their opportunities.

When I talk about successful people, I am not talking about an economic success, but a personal success. The success that is measured by the obstacles that you had to overcome; the many times that people had thrown you into a hole of loneliness and despair. and even then, you come out to continue living with hope and joy.

Remember all the times when you allowed forgiveness to enter your heart instead of revenge? that makes you a successful person.

Measure your success instead by how much you have helped others and the friendship you have shared.

Being successful is not having the great business position or the house in the most expensive area in the city. Successful people are strong men and women who struggle to do honest work every day for their family and for themselves.

For me, when I see my children, now young adults, hugging, laughing together and enjoying each other’s company, I just think, I did something right, I have been successful, I measure my success in the children I raised. They are honest hard-working people with high values of helping each other and their neighbors.

So, the question is: How many obstacles have you overcome to be where you are today? Answer honestly to yourself and when difficult times come, you just remember you are stronger than all obstacles in your life path.