Well, to start with, let’s just use our little grey cells for a moment and see what do people usually mean when they say luck. According to Concise Oxford English Dictionary, luck means a success or failure apparently brought by chance. It came from many origins varying from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch, but all brings to this : luck.
For the past centuries, people all over the world seem to blame everything on luck. If there was a catastrophe, it was luck. If they died out of cancer, it was luck. If they failed, it was luck. But truly enough, luck usually takes a back seat when successful have done something extremely well. Lakshmi Mittal didn’t succeed in the steel industry with luck. Obama didn’t rely on luck to run his campaign. Ralph Waldo Emerson only believes in cause and effect. Why, we don’t even know whether Donald Trump believes in luck. After all Lucille Ball once said, luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
What is to be understood is that while we may get lucky once in a while, most of the time it is just because we took the right chances. Of course, we need to have faith in luck and the Power greater that Oneself, but effort from us is also vital. I mean, you can say that you were lucky to survive that hurricane, but how in the world are you going to survive without those hectic preparations. Not everything can be done impromptu, you know.
Now for those that have been waiting for luck to knock on their door for a long time, stop waiting. Instead, open the windows and throw open the door. Before you know it, luck will walk in. But after that, it is up to you how long you want to keep that door open. Risk taking isn’t really fun. It is coated with an extra blanket of danger and if it backfires, it sure will feel like getting hit with a nuclear energy bomb. Well, I think so anyway, seeing that I do not know anyone with near death experience.
But if you do take the proper risks, the award you reap is astounding. Playing it safe always does not always work, but neither does taking risks all the time. The idea is to know what to do, because if one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Now, let us forget about the dictionary. A recent discovery has been made that shows that luck may all depend on us. Don’t ask me how, I still believe in luck, but these scientists must have had something to go on with, right? This is how they did it. They made a lot of people, those who think that they are lucky and those who don’t think so, take a test. They are to count how many pictures there is in a thick newspaper. The ones that count themselves lucky got it in 12 seconds. How? On the second page itself, there way a bold headline, “STOP COUNTING! THERE ARE 75 PICTURES IN THIS NEWSPAPER”.
So to go philosophical for now, luck basically depends on your approach of life. Lets put it this way, abandon an almost sinking ship and you will be stranded on a deserted island. Safe it, and you reach the big land. Or maybe, Eleanor will ask, “Why in the world did you go there if the weather is not right and the boat is in ruins?”
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