With the advent of currency, money has been the most important criterion in a successful life. As a result, many people have a strong blind faith towards money, committing many crimes such as robbery, bribery, and even murder. As far as I am concerned, I firmly believe that there are other crucial factors for people to achieve a true success. This includes health, reputation, and good social relationship.
Above all, healthy life is more critical element than money. Although people have been seeking for more money in their hands, it is undeniable that the ultimate concern of human is their life span. Without health, richness would be meaningless. For example, my grandfather was very rich. He has countless money in his bank account and had more than four houses. However, he suddenly had a cancer and finally passed away after six months. Before he died, he said to all of his family members that even though many people had envied him as the rich, but he actually did not have many chances to enjoy his life with his money. Also, he regretted that he had not cared about his physical health, which would have provided him much happier life. In this respect, we cannot say that only financial abundance assures one's success.
In addition, positive reputation from other people is another indispensible principle in our lives. Suppose a person has a great deal of money, but also has unendurable repute from the people around. He never feels that he is successful. To illustrate, there is a very famous novel "Christmas Carol," written by Charles Dickens. In the story, there is an old, rich man named 'Scrooge'. Even though he has enormous money, every body does not like him for his endless greed. After all, he gets negative words from people and regrets doing such bad behaviors. As this example demonstrates, people should consider his positive image to people in order to fulfil a real success.
Finally, successful people need a good relationship with others. It is often said that human being is an social animal. As this old saying shows, we cannot live a happy and satisfactory life without bonding with others. For instance, it is not uncommon for us to hear the news that many family members argue and fight with each other in order to have more portion of money their parents had left for them. Even though some members of them have more money than others, it is doubtful that they can live a successful life without the great love which can be found as a name of "family." In this respect, not only money but also positive family relationship is in demand for people to lead a successful life.
To sum up, there is no point in only grabbing a great amount of money. We, humans, need health, good reputation and strong social relationship to be more successful. Whenever we are tempted by the attraction of money, we have to remember the old saying that goes, "All the money in the world does not necessarily make you happy."
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