Ample of wealth, lack of success.

"You would never find the cake delicious, unless you have tasted the sour soup."

The importance of something is only valid when you are aware of something that stands as a comparison to it. We can never understand what it is to be successful unless we are aware of what it feels to be a failure.
Failure, I believe is an essential part to be successful.

For an instance, there is a boy I know who has never faced any difficulties in his life and cleared all his obstacles with ease. Family background/business of this boy provides him with an easy, set aback life. He wasn't good with academics. He wasn't enthusiastic about almost anything. The aim of his life was only to spend more and more money. And in spite of being the richest guy amongst his sort, he wasn't successful.
My point in giving this example is that this boy is completely unaware of not only the realities of life but also the aura and vibe of the atmosphere of struggle. He doesn't know what it's like to be a part of failure or to have caused a failure in one or the other part of his life. Since he is completely naïve to this part of life, he looses the opportunity of experiencing the happiness of success.

When you get everything with ease and there are minimum of obstacles splashed in your way, the real meaning of life and the felicity of reaching your goals after a great deal of hard work and determination skips you. I believe that in spite of all the day to day hustles and chaotic lifestyle, one should always be open and welcoming to the hindrances prevalent in its life. Considering it as a part of it, would definitely lead you to reach the ultimate goals destined for you, not only in terms of materiality but also spiritually. And with spirituality I don't mean religious satisfaction or something of that sort, rather I mean an achievement of self - satisfaction within oneself.

Often success is taken in accordance to money making or material benifits earned anyhow. But I personally believe that not all rich and wealthy people can be designated as successful people. Yes, they are rich and they can afford almost anything they want but if they are not educated, or noble in their manners then they aren't successful. The actual achievement is when you, through your hard work and unbreakable determination lead yourself to a place where you used to see yourself few years back.

Ambition, when taken in correct connotations give you the ultimate pleasure to be reaped. Taking always into consideration the contrast of being successful and being optimistic about it makes an atmosphere full of positive vibes, which actually fulfills all your aspired ambitions.
Often people take "ambition" in a very rigid manner and keep a typical sort of attitude towards it. They take failure in negative intentions which breaks the building blocks of the goal they were about to achieve when they were motivated enough about it. These people focus on getting the best 'always' which is not possible if we point only towards humans and are not talking about people from some other planet.

Balance is an inevitable necessity of human life. It's like a teeter-totter in which there is a plank in the middle on which we sit through out our lives and when we tend to move a bit more towards one specific side, things imbalance.