How Do You Define Success?

excerpt taken from a letter (email) to my best friend, Margaret—

"I have learned success is simply fulfilling the purpose we were called to do before we die. It can not be measured by someone else's achievements because each of us have a unique purpose. Your blood pressure reading can not be used to measure the force of blood beating against my arterial walls. Only mine. Likewise, only my work, efforts and accomplishments can determine my success or failure, not yours. So many think it's "things" but there are too many people with those "things" and they are unhappy, lost, alone and miserable.

If what you and I and others are doing can reach but one to teach them this, we would have made a difference in some one's life and given the Lord something by which to remember us!"