Does luck exist?
Posted: Monday, June 21, 2010
by Farouk Radwan
2knowmyself
One Greek fable tells the story of a fox that badly wanted to reach a vine of grapes. After the fox tried many times it failed to reach the grapes but instead of feeling bad it tried to convince itself that it didn't need the grapes that badly after all.
So what does this has to do with luck?
The fox tried to deceive itself in order to make the pain of not reaching what it wants become less and its the same thing that we humans do.
Why you are not lucky
Sometimes it can hurt our Ego so much to admit that we lack the skills that we need or that we failed to get what we want in life and because of that our subconscious minds try to find any excuse that we can use in order to feel Good about ourselves.
When a person says i am not lucky he actually means that he didn't find other explanation for failing to get what he wants in life other than believing that he has no luck.
Does luck really exist?
A friend of mine once told me that he is not lucky because he wasn't born rich while some of his friends are lucky because they were born rich.
The argument sounds logical except that my friend didn't ask himself two questions, why do some rich people lose their money and why do some poor people become rich??
Yes there are lots of things that are beyond of our control in this life like our looks, our families or our place of birth. But just as the starting point is out of our control still you can change anything else after that starting point.
I lost all money in the stock market three years ago (if bad luck were to be defined there won't be a better definition) but i got triple this money back in 2 years by selling ebooks on my site!!
I started with bad luck but i turned this bad luck into good luck because of the choices i made.
Luck is all about choices
I could have lost hope in becoming rich, i could have said that i am not lucky and people would have believed me. But i didn't, i decided to create my own luck because i believed that even though some events are beyond my control still my response to these events is 100 percent controllable.
We create our own luck through our choices
Anything can be changed so don't blame your luck for it
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)I think to some degree luck does exist, being in the right place at the right time. I've known people that could fall in a out house and come out smelling like a rose. Luck just seems to surround them.
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