The B*tch Named Luck

Luck. The most loved word just next to words love and lust which ironically all starts with the letter 'L'. One of the most important realizations came to me just a few days ago. Luck is a traitor disguised as a good element.

Let's face it people are sucker for anything big and worth bragging about such as a lottery jackpot, academic honors, promotions or just about anything big. And as always before actions they rely on luck to pave the way to success for them. Call it pathetic but that's the reality. Humans are naturally materialistic and greedy people. We always want something more than what we really need and we thrive to achieve greater things and be bigger than everyone else. So when a big empty but convincing promise appears at our doorstep which promises a chance in glory we hurriedly bite on it like starving hounds even if chances to reach that glory is too slim with hundreds, thousands and sometimes millions others running after that chance. People would rather sit around and forget that the world continues to move forward once they rely on luck. However, these hungry hounds don't realize that the moment they chose to sit around and wait for their so called luck, they have just placed their stakes too high. Every moment they spent in waiting and sitting around were wasted time that they could have used to better themselves, their skills and explore other more realistic opportunities around them. Another minute of waiting could have been the minute when your boss, teacher or some capable person discovered your potentials and offered to help you find your way up. Too bad though because between  the lines separating reality and fantasy people always choose to believe fantasy.

Most people get easily blinded by the idea of "chance". They spend the rest of the time dreaming about what they're going to do in the future with their "winnings" like it's a sure win for them. Acting ahead without doing anything to realistically attain it, a lot of us are guilty of that. Everyone's been there and even if we know that it's wrong, we just can't help but fall for it simply because that's what luck is all about. Personally, I believe that luck does not exist to motivate us to create our own desired results that, we can sit around plot our future plans with the "winnings" thinking that "luck" will do the rest of the work. Rather, luck exists to motivate us that even though we are in the midst of struggle or almost trapped in the sphere of impossibility, good things can still prevail. If only we believe that we can get through it all and work our way through it, we can. Luck is us. People don't just get lucky overnight. Everything is attained through sheer hard work, motivation and skills. A lot of times we see people we admire and envy because of how far they've gone in their lives. We often envy them of their luck in life when actually those glitters we see speaks of the fact that none of it would be possible if not for hard work and motivation. I think that people also tend to believe in the existence of luck because it helps them absorb as much positive energy as they can that too much of it makes them over dependent on luck. This in turn, makes them nothing but stubborn, miserable, frustrated and forever envious of other people's successes.

I hate saying or being told of "Good Luck" because I don't believe in good lucks. There's only hard work and a result. If you don't like the result, then you must find a way to improve it. Your life lies in your hands and yours alone but never in the idea of luck. If you see successful people don't hate on them, imitate them or better outperform them but never ever put your life on break for the sake of luck. Once you get to where you want to be through your own skills I'm sure the feeling and experience would definitely feel so priceless that not even the hundreds of millions of bucks of jackpot prize from the lottery can ever buy.



Now Listening to "Sweetest Thing" by U2.