365 Days of Mei

#230; Successful people

Generally when we think of “successful people” names like Steve Jobs, Opera, Francis Crick (if you’re a biology nerd) comes up. 

I think it’s safe to say that names like Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus hardly surface. 

Seems fair, right?

                       Not really. 

As a university science student, our daily lives are filled with formulas, terminology, and reactions that we have to memorize, quite a bit of schoolwork to do, string of midterms and exams that just never seems to end. And for what? Well, some of us are aspiring scientists, possibly even Nobel Prize winners, and most of us are oriented towards medicine. For us, the definition of success would then be getting into med school, getting a paper published, or winning a Nobel Prize. 

And sometimes, buried under mountains of sympathetic system, glycolysis, statistics, orgo labs, I would ask myself, why couldn’t I have picked an easier career choice and developed singing or something, get famous off Youtube and become a rockstar. Probably will make way more money than I ever will, and fame and fortune will come at a much earlier age. 

That’s when names like Justin Bieber pops into mind. 

But I realized that, those teen celebrities that doesn’t seem to deserve half the fame and money that they have now, are nonetheless successful. And it may not seem like it, but they are where they are because they’re hard workers, and they strive towards their goal. 

They didn’t just sit around and wait for opportunities to appear at their doorstep, they are young and rich because they wanted it bad enough to start auditioning early, start singing early, start playing instruments early. 

Hans Krebs and Justin Bieber may not seem like they have anything alike (and you probably never thought of seeing them in the same sentence, ever), but here it is: they are both successful. 

Success is success no matter how you look at it, and it can vary in a spectrum of provinces, but at the end of the day, they’ve worked hard to get to where they are, and a certain level of respect is there for any of those go getters out there. 

M