“If a man be
lucky, there is no foretelling the possible extent of his good
fortune. Pitch him into the Euphrates and like as not he will swim out
with a pearl in his hand,” a Babylonian
Proverb
For one can
have good luck
only to lose it all foolishly and then try to blame others when really it’s our
greed that drives us to be reckless when fortune favours our shores. Honest and
hard work teachers us to appreciate our labour and our reward reminds us to be
wise with what we earn. Remember let hard work be your friend. Do not complain
about your reward or how hard the work may be. Try to make the hard labour work
for you as Thomas Jefferson said, “I find that the harder I work the more
luck I seem to have.”
And, we all
know that luck
can come in different flavours of good and bad. Some people say you make your
own luck. “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself,” by
Douglas Macarthur. I would agree with this statement because being active can
bring luck.
What is
luck? Some people
believe that luck is nothing more than pure superstition with events happening
outside their control. Based on an accident or chance event, luck can be seen
to be a faith in a superstition, an unseen force. It is similar in reasoning to
the post hoc fallacy - after
this therefore because of this fallacy, which is based upon the mistaken notion
that simply because one thing happens after another, the first event was a
cause of the second event.
Some people are lucky in love and some in money often
dependent on the amount of effort they choose to exert. I believe it’s a
combination of hard work and being alert to positive opportunities. I think
it’s what we observe about other people’s lives that make us assume they are
lucky or not. Not that they have more luck than us. It might be that you hear
about a big lottery win someone had and immediately think how lucky they are.
We all think like this yet we don’t know what misfortune they might have now or
in the future.
So luck is
just a word we
use to describe an observation we make about how fortuitous someone has been.
Luck is often associated with money but money is just an amphoral object, not
to be coveted like we should for love. I do not know if I am lucky or not, I
have not won the lottery but then again I have not been hit by a bus. I am
writing a book not trying to tempt fate, so please disregard the previous
sentence to the unseen force we call God.
Sometimes we
all suffer bad
luck of one form or another but it takes a strong person to keep going. “All of us have bad luck and good
luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going --
is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it,”
by Robert Collier the prolific self-help author.
For many of
us we look
towards the lottery to change our lives. Every week we pick our numbers and for
a few hours we dream how we would spend the money. We hope that one day lady
luck will strike and that lottery ticket will be our passport to a new life. We
are all searching for a good life in the American
Dream that is sold to us
constantly through the media, which will somehow make everything better. We
look for a prosperous and happier existence by finding that perfect job. Yet
for most of us, the disillusioned masses, the prospect of a lottery win or the
perfect job is just a dream. “A
great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence,” a Chinese Proverb.
That lottery win yes it sometimes happens. However, for most
of the time life is a constant struggle. We wish for that lottery win or that
dream job to happen, so that it will change our lives for something we cannot
have at the moment. Many of us are sucked into this pipe dream without
understanding really what it is we really want – we have not spent the time
defining what we really want from life. Our pipe dreams are a way of thinking
without realising our real potential as individuals.
There have
been many wise
words written by important people who had wisdom to see the truth about how we
should conduct our lives and therefore live a happier life. It would do well to
ponder on what they left us and to search our minds to understand what they try
to teach us – their legacy is knowledge we should grasp with open arms.
Have you
heard about The Richest Man in Babylon, by
George S. Clason first published in 1926, it’s a story that maybe you should
read? When I first read this story I was just a young boy but it still
fascinates me. Read the review of the book here that I have written, otherwise you may
possibly miss the most important point in the book.
P.S. It's easy to overlook your opportunities.
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In my latest book “It’s Never Too Late” read how dreams do come true, but be careful what you wish for. Understand the secret of greed and you will attain one of the secrets of prosperity. The book will also take you on a journey and explores love, money, luck, and much more.
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Hey, Chuck. Did you bring any spending money? Viva la vida loca.
Conducting Survey into Precognitive Choices
