Everyone own their unique life and career, everyone wants to successes the right way, but there are all kinds of difficulties waiting for them while they are walking toward their goal, especially for all the businessmen. After reading the poem “The Journey” (Mary Oliver), I can unite this poem with the process to become a successful businessman, and I develop it in three parts. The first, finding out what the real business is, then, dealing with all kinds of challenges, finally, realizing what kind of life is called good life and how to live with it.

To begin with, people know that it’s hard to work on some business and even harder to build their own business, and people always start their business by learning what the business is and how it works. As Mary mentioned in her poem “The Journey,” “One day you finally know, what you had to do, and began.” (Mary) Once people decide to work, or to run their own business, they will have a chance to learn why they need to do this, but most of them spend lots of time to think rather than make it into actions. The only reason for this, because they think of too much element factors from outside, they need to take care of themselves and their family. Besides, all human beings make mistakes especially for the new businessmen, so, people will talk about it, when they see mistakes and problems. It’s impossible to kill all the gossip, because others are not only talk in front of you, some talk “behind” you. The speaker describes how powerful the gossip could become, saying “Kept shouting, their bad advice though began to shake,” (Oliver) this is the quote which demonstrates people around are talking about everything, good and bad. As everyone known, either good or bad can be effected to single person or a company. We should consider all the gossip as a challenge, which is a good thing, because people can improve by meeting new challenges. So, be glad to be talked about because others care.

After solving amounts of problems, a smart businessman will know how to deal with these challenges. All businessmen are ambitious of success, they don’t want to fail, but some succeed, and some are fail. However, the speaker was trying to say, “but you didn’t stop, you knew what you had to do,” (Oliver) While working, you will fail for sure, but you can’t conclude it as you can’t do it, it fails only because you did not try hard enough. And, some fail because they don’t know what is wrong when they run their business. Some good businessmen will realize most of the problems in business are dealing with all different kinds of partners, and they are all human beings. So, a conclusion is coming up, the person who knows how to deal with people, they are easy to get their business done in most of the time. Besides, Creativity is important for people’s business, therefore, some will agree, some will against. But keep doing the thing and do not get disturbing by others. The only way to get rid of all kinds of judges is trying to ignore it. The speaker illustrates what happens after you put your head down and keep working; “As you left their voice behind, the stars began to burn,” (Oliver) which illustrates all the “voice” will be gone as long as ignoring it and keeping working. After solving all the problems and dealing with all the challenges, there is a brighter future along the road in the end.

Finally, it is last lesson for all businessmen, which is learning what kind of life is called good life and how to live with it. In the poem “The Journey,” the speaker related “And there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own,” (Oliver) people begin to hear a voice form themselves slowly, because they know what is meaningful life and how to achieve it. First, people know there are more people are waiting for help, and they are living worse than most of people in the society. As a successful businessman can help his surroundings, even entire society, for example, they provide more opportunities to people who do not have job, and they even do charity to appeal people who can donate money or anything. Mary wrote about, “The only thing you could do determined to save, the only life you could save,” which express how a successful businessman can live by keep helping others. “Life” is not only a symbol for a person, but also a community. There are lots of idols we can follow such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and George Soros, the total amount they have been donated is over £34 billion. (METRO News) They are the richest people around the world, who is the most successful men, they are doing it for reasons. That’s why we need to do good things. 

At the end, it is hard to find out everything before you experience it, everyone has to go through lots of challenges especially in the business world. However, that’s all the process to become a successful businessman, people are really understand it by experiencing it, and it is harder than what I have said. All the businessmen are trying to survive, everyone want to do a better job, but all of them can’t escape from all the challenges, just like people can’t get away from the stones along the road while climbing. Be calm and walk over it, success is not far in the future. In my opinion, everyone has their own “Journey” once per life, try to experience as much as possible along your unique “Journey.”
