What is success?

I have wondered for a long time what success means. Is it material wealth, mental well being, physical health coming together in one person? Or is it contentment? Or is it happiness? If its contentment, is an ambitious person unsuccessful? Is it having lot of friends or is it having a few friends that mean a lot? Is a renounced saint more successful than a materialistic person? Or is a crazy person on the street without a care or concern about the next meal happier than any of us, because he has nothing to lose? Since this is such a subjective question and our lives keep changing every day sometimes even by the minute, even if success were defined, it would be hard to evaluate one's life until after a person has passed. At which point, even if we've been assigned the crown of a successful person, we are not alive to enjoy the accolades. Who cares? (Or do we need to care? Well, life after death will have to be a topic for another day's blog.)

Since there are almost always more questions than answers, like most of life's questions, the answer is different for each of us. In my opinion, all we need to be concerned is whether we are living by what we think is important to us. I feel like I'm successful this moment if I can fully live in that moment, fill that moment to its potential, lose myself in the process and just treat every moment like its the last.