Everyone in the world wants to be prosperous ,  but in reality,  no one feel it !!
.... honestly ,  what is the prosperity ??!!

Hello , mona
Prosperity means:  health,  have a mather,  father,  friendly family,  intrested in my job,  a ideal live.  there things,  related to human`s mind.
I see properity in the health and friendly family.

  ...I WISH YOU A BEST WISHES…

Mona - 07 October 2008 09:25 AM

Everyone in the world wants to be prosperous ,  but in reality,  no one feel it !!
.... honestly ,  what is the prosperity ??!!

“In reality?” 

Mind your punctuation!  There’s a space after “prosperous” before the comma, and a space before your double exclamation points.  Shocking.

The article “the” before “prosperity” is unnecessary.

“No one feels” things.  Many people “feel” things.  One person feels.  Many people feel.  One feels, more than one feel.

Everyone in the world wants to be prosperous, but no one feels prosperous.  Honestly, what is prosperity?

Excellent question.  What, indeed, is prosperity?

MAAH - 08 October 2008 11:02 AM

Hello , mona
Prosperity means:  health,  have a mather,  father,  friendly family,  intrested in my job,  a ideal live.  there things,  related to human`s mind.
I see properity in the health and friendly family.

Hi Maah!

You are working with the grammatical construction of a series, e.g., a list of things.  When you construct a series, you need to have some consistency in the way you list them.  For example:

Prosperity means having health, a mother and father, a harmonious family, and an interesting job.  These things would provide an ideal life.

Note:  “friendly” might not be the best adjective here.  If the family is friendly, that implies that, as a family, it is friendly towards others.  If the friendliness is internal, e.g., the family members are friendly to each other, the word “harmonious” or other similar words might fit better.

Note the difference between “live” and “life”. 

I’m not sure what you meant about “there things” related to “human’s mind.” 

Regarding “human’s mind”, I think it would be better if you said “the human mind”.

Watch out for redundancies.  You repeat that you see prosperity in health and a friendly family.  You’ve already mentioned these things.  Perhaps you wanted to say that for you, the most important factors are health and a harmonious family. 

Speaking of redundancies, below you use the word “wish” twice.

....I WISH YOU A BEST WISHES…

Also, what’s up with the dots before and after the sentence?

It makes me think of the traffic lights here.  One single red light means stop.  But because people don’t stop at a single red light, they install three flashing red lights.  If people don’t understand that they need to stop at a red light, how will adding lights change anything?  What we need is a traffic cop who gives tickets to people who don’t stop at the single red light until those people learn that one single red light means STOP.

Prosperity.  Did you look up the word?  Did you mind map it? 

My handy dictionary says the following:

noun
the state of being prosperous:  a long period of prosperity.
ORIGIN Middle English:  from Old French prosperite, from Latin prosperitas, from prosperus ‘doing well.’

Thesaurus:
she deserves all the prosperity she now enjoys SUCCESS, profitability, affluence, wealth, opulence, luxury, the good life, milk and honey, (good) fortune, ease, plenty, comfort, security, well-being.

ANTONYM hardship, failure.

Aliteration (words that start with “p”):  Prosperity, property, privilege, prestige, promotion, pride, prenuptial agreement.

This reminds me of a line from the song by Bright Eyes:

...and in this endless race for property and privilege to be won, we must run, we must run, we must run.

Is there some sort of race for prosperity?  Is it relative, to some extent?  Some studies on happiness indicate that it’s not how much you have, but that you have more than your peer group that makes you happy.

Planners take the question of prosperity seriously, and are constantly looking for ways to measure it.  We have to be able to categorize, qualify and quantify “prosperity”.  I would put this under the question of “quality of life”.  The City Mayors website ranks the world’s cities by quality of life.

The sidebar of the above link tells us that they determine rankings based on the Mercer Worldwide Quality of Living Survey.

Research methodology
Data was largely collected between September and November 2007 and is regularly updated to take account of changing circumstances. In particular, the assessments will be revised in the case of any new developments. The Mercer database contains more than 350 cities, however only 215 cities have been considered for the quality of living 2008 ranking in order to compare from one year to the next. The worldwide rankings are produced from the most recent Worldwide Quality of Living survey, conducted by Mercer. Individual reports are produced for each city surveyed.

Mercer’s study is based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 39 key quality-of-living determinants, grouped in the following categories:
• Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law enforcement, etc)
•  Economic environment (currency exchange regulations, banking services, etc)
•  Socio-cultural environment (censorship, limitations on personal freedom, etc)
•  Health and sanitation (medical supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution, etc)
•  Schools and education (standard and availability of international schools, etc)
•  Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public transport, traffic congestion, etc)
•  Recreation (restaurants, theatres, cinemas, sports and leisure, etc)
•  Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars, etc)
•  Housing (housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance services, etc)
•  Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters)

Notice that it’s the Mercer Worldwide “Quality of Living” survey, and not “quality of life”. 

I googled Mercer and found this definition.  The distinction they make is interesting:

Although Quality of Life is a broadly used term, it should not be confused with what Mercer refers to as Quality of Living. Alongside the different personal and subjective assessments each of us may make, there are some aspects everyone would probably agree on as being important for having good quality of living standards such as personal safety and security, health issues, transport infrastructure, availability of consumer goods and adequate housing and schooling and recreation opportunities.

In fact, Quality of Life may involve a subjective assessment or opinion, whereas Mercer’s criteria are objective, neutral and unbiased. Quality of Life is about a person’s emotional state and personal life. One may live in the highest ranked city in terms of quality of living and still have a very bad quality of life because of unfortunate personal circumstances (illness, unemployment or loneliness, etc).

From looking at Mercer’s “about” page, it appears that they are a human resources company. 

Mercer is the global leader for trusted HR and related financial advice, products and services. In our work with clients, we make a positive impact on the world every day. We do this by enhancing the financial and retirement security, health, productivity and employment relationships of the global workforce.

Their objective in quantifying quality of living and ranking cities is to be able to assess how much people should be paid for working in each city.  In other words, if you are a multinational corporation, hiring someone, and you want to move that person from one city to another, you need to adjust their salary up or down based on how much of a hardship it is for them to be in the new environment. 

Their purpose is to develop criteria to determine compensation of employees.  Fascinating.

Dear mona, I’m agree with Maah. I think every one should know what is more important in her/his life because in some situations she/he has to choose between them.

Hi my freind,
Prosperity is health,  have calm,  good family & love others
I hope you fell prosperity.