In today’s modern age and time, many people has the belief that a good education was the key to success in life, and that only through education and education alone will they achieve such ‘success’. Indeed, I must agree with the majority that by having good education, which is in terms of getting Aces in your studies and topping in your classes, they may be ways to help you in achieving success in life. As to many people, success may be symbolized as getting a highly paid job, earning a high salary, driving in a big flashy car and living in a posh house. All of these are materials, which can be easily attained when you are very well educated as jobs will then came knocking to your door instead.

However, this might not be true all the time as there may also be other exceptional cases when sometimes even if you have received good education while studying overseas, you might not get a well-paid job. This is for the reason that, the skills you have picked up overseas may not be applicable and useful in getting you the job you want in Singapore. Thus, in this case, a good education may not definitely be the way to success in life.

Other than this, a good education is also not the only path to success. You will also need a spank of luck and chances to strike occasionally to make it to success. That explains why there are successful people with low academic results being published on newspaper, as they are the ones who believe in their own efforts and know how to grab hold of rare opportunities which will help them to success even though they may only have little knowledge.

In my own opinion, I think that instead of using wealth to measure a person’s achievements and successes in life, we should use happiness. A person may be a very successful man when he had all the money in the world, but his life would be empty and meaningless if he feels sad and dejected. On contrary, an ordinary man can feel contented and happy when he has a happy family or when he had many great friends. These will not be exchangeable for all the money in the world. Thus, to be successful in this case, you do not need to have a good education, other than gaining care and concern from your family and friends.

In conclusion, I think that there was no exact ruler to measure a person’s achievement because each individual has his or her own definition about success in life. Well, thus to see whether you have achieved anything in your whole life is see whether you have reach any goals based on your aims. We each have a lanyard in measuring successes in our own heart.