I think everyone would say failure but tonight at Bible study one of my friends, Ally, disagreed with that. She had heard a pastor say that the opposite of success is not failure, rather its futility.
If you agree that futility is the opposite of success then you are saying success is being in a state of having purpose. Not having loads of money and all sorts of cool things to prove that, not having titles or the career you want but having purpose.
The hard thing with this realization for most people is that they find their purpose in pursuing status but are never truly satisfied with what they achieve. Max Weber studied this in his work "The Spirit of Capitalism." How does one change their outlook on the world from one we are socialized into? That all rests in the transformation of one's mind that Paul (most likely, maybe not) talks about in Romans 12.
I have found my purpose to be loving God and loving others as He loves them and I feel good about it.
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