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Total self-sufficiency.
Cementing personal identity as best as possible.
Bettering the lives of those around you, as well as your own.
Being able to comprehend the situation at hand with ease.

Living a happy life is what I call a success. No stress, no rabsho or buuq

DeeqaDagan wrote:Living a happy life is what I call a success. No stress, no rabsho or buuq

Sounds like the life of a weed addict

Alphanumeric wrote:Cementing personal identity

Do you see personal identity as something that can be static? Never changing, never growing, never shifting?

Jasmine6 wrote:

DeeqaDagan wrote:Living a happy life is what I call a success. No stress, no rabsho or buuq

Sounds like the life of a weed addict

Yahooy iga leexo, I am no crackhead

Good question.

Not being a burden to those close to u. Being able to start a project with a goal and having the sanity and wisdom to successfully abandon a sinking ship.

Maintaining ur shenangans as truly urs as much as possible.

for me is inner peace.

@DoubleAppleNmint
It's nice to see your serious side, walaal. While I haven't noticed that about Somalis but I think some people are delighted to hear about others' misfortunes. I don't understand those people.

SavySallySupersedes wrote:-Earning honest pay for honest work.
-Cultivating a family culture.
-Raising socially, politically aware children.
-Fulfilling my responsibilities as a wife and mother the best I can.
-Setting a good example
-Being connectable
-Being a good, honest person.

Very simple.

I agree, abayo. Especially with being open to connect with others. I've learned the hard way that's better than having a certain coldness or distance with all others.

@hyperactive
That's exactly it, I think. Even if someone might seem "successful" to others, it means nothing if you don't have that sense of inner peace.

For me its

Safety
Halal job
2 wives
2 houses
staying close to family and freinds
Building an orphanage in Somalia

CushiticReflections, i learned lesson awhile ago, never judge the person's success for their wealth, education, class, power etc. my dad once told me , you never know what Allah took from them instead. also never pitty some one or look down on them, cause you never know what Allah give them instead. with little we think of them, maybe they got inner peace and satisfaction that we may never know.

Jasmine6 wrote:

DeeqaDagan wrote:Living a happy life is what I call a success. No stress, no rabsho or buuq

Sounds like the life of a weed addict

Alphanumeric wrote:Cementing personal identity

Do you see personal identity as something that can be static? Never changing, never growing, never shifting?

I posted this in a hurry and thought about it afterward. Yeah, I don't think 'cementing' was the right word to use. Now I'm too tired to think of the correct one.

Formulating? Converging on a sense of? Understanding the importance of? Outwardly reiterating thoughts in order to create a sense of?

I unno. Something like that.

@ Tuushi
What do you mean by maintaining your shenanigans? Do you mean not burdening others with your problems?

@saacJabshee
That sounds very admirable.

@hyperactive
That's an interesting thought. Your father sounds wise.

CushiticReflections wrote:@ Tuushi
What do you mean by maintaining your shenanigans? Do you mean not burdening others with your problems?

@saacJabshee
That sounds very admirable.

@hyperactive
That's an interesting thought. Your father sounds wise.

Obviously not if your the second wife. mise waa dheg dheg hadi reserve lagu galiyo?

hyperactive wrote:for me is inner peace.

This

saacJabshee wrote:Obviously not if your the second wife. mise waa dheg dheg hadi reserve lagu galiyo?

Translation?