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What is a successful life ?

Last night I was reading recent news which was about a well-known Japanese  cartoon writer and his roller-coaster life . The cartoon writer, who we will call   "Y" ,  got huge success with his cartoon in the 1970s when he was 20 years old and his cartoon series was shown on TV every week. Y got married when he was 23 years old, after he became successful , and had two children and bought a house and also a condo for his office in Tokyo, Japan. He was earning about 40 to 50 million yen /year from the series of the cartoon for about 6 years. He also started to make other cartoon series, but for some reason, Y started feeling pressure to draw and write and get ideas for cartoons and he was unable to get another hit from his other cartoons, after his only cartoon which got big hit series had completed. From the stress, he started escaping from his work of cartoon drawing /writing, and he got addiction for gambling and went to night clubs every night. and he s...