I use to think I was Successful if I became popular or my net worth increased tremendously and I thought this was a true indicator of purpose. I would see famous people who I thought were "making it" and I would think "how I wish i could be like that?". I now see that many times in my life I had already been successful but just couldn't see it. For example their were times when I was treated rudely while working in the retail industry and I still pushed myself to show kindness to other customers throughout the rest of my work day. I realized that very few can deal with this and carry on rationally and ethically. I now realize a person's success has to be seen for its value by a person's own self. I had once wanted to be a rock star because I could see myself playing guitar for a big crowd and I never really understood till recently that I only craved the attention and validation of people because I had and at times still do have difficulty when dealing and communicating with other people. I have always been a very introverted person and saw people that could effortlessly communicate and I wondered how they could draw peoples attention in like they were built with some kind of super powered DNA imprinted charisma. My perspective on success has changed over the years and this in turn changed the way I think and I ultimately changed my long term life goals. I realized that my own personal definition success is the amount of work I put into helping others and it has to be done while they are not looking. Throughout my younger life I had to witness a lot of horrible crimes committed in person and more recently I have witnessed this online and it has affected myself, my family and my friends. I have seen people lose everything they owned and get labeled things they were not because of infiltration within their social media accounts. I do wish at times we could go back to the not so distant past and communicate in person but I realized this is something have no control over and I go nowhere fast fantasizing about worlds were people live outside their phones screen. It's been a long time coming but I got to know myself recently and I realized I am naturally a protector and I am drawn to always helping those in trouble and I feel with the rapidly changing state of our social environment since the rise of the internet and the smart phones that a person could no longer defend and protect others physically because very few would incur physically initiated crime in our future. Alternatively I do have options to protect others and have found a love for coding and understanding the criminal mind when it comes to cyber crimes. I have had the opportunity to protect family and friends from attacks that would have left them broke and without a home. I also have never told them about this and in fact they think I was the infiltrator of their accounts. Although I do feel much pain from their misjudgments I even more feel a sense of gratification from knowing I can help that outweighs this by far. I also know what I'm doing is right and gives me sense of purpose. It is the best feeling and requires no acknowledgement and they can think what they want till they know it isn't true. The truth will always come to light with a little patience. I know a question that could arise to you as a reader is that if I already have a knowledge for cyber security than why would I need to attend school? I can answer this question most simply by stating that less than a year's time I've seen an overwhelming rise in crime that takes form in programmers creating more intricate means to breaking personal accounts or hackers leaving traceless making it difficult for even professionals to recognize. They can even manipulate coding to make another person you know seem as if they are breaking into your account leaving people confused and untrusting of one another. That being said I no longer feel I have enough knowledge to deal with this increase and I need the help of others more knowledgeable. It's now that I want to seek further skills and I can see value in education and networking. I know this would be an asset to me starting my future business that would truly protect the welfare of others. And further off in the far future I ultimately could see me teaching others to find the same motivation and purpose that has made me feel most successful.