what is success

Human fears are ultimately fears of death and quick decay, although they can limit the possibilities of life's development. Indecision and indecision can suppress life to a certain small and narrow state. Worse than death, however, is a life without self-respect. The highest joy of life is the extension and elevation of one's own power, which is the only way we can transcend our limitations and reach for the sublime and the divine.
Although the old man finally defeated the shark, he was deprived of his trophy and brought back only a fish frame. In the world's standards of value, the old man was undoubtedly defeated. However, in the long history of the world, no one has ever been a winner. People come into the world naked, and even if they have fame and fortune in their hands, they eventually have to face death. But as the old man said, one can be destroyed, but not defeated. It is a success if one is able to resist and never stop fighting on the road to destruction.