I had a rather interesting conversation with someone yesterday, which made me realize how important a part luck plays in our lives. Lately I have been really feeling that whatever a man achieves is of his own doing - whether it is beneficial to his life or not. But many a times, lot of us are at simply at the right place at the right time, or know the right things, or have learned the right things to know how to make the best use of it.
If somebody is educated, it follows that he or she may be able to better utilize and appropriate the opportunities provided to him or her. But at the same time, when one is not educated or a degree-holder, the same might be true. Luck does, indeed, play an important role in the life of each one of us, and to not acknowledge it is mere blasphemy - not of religion, but of our own existence.
On the very basic and scientific level, our existence, our coming to create the world as we know and the evolution of organisms itself may be attributed to either pure luck, or "survival of the fittest". This fitness, is innate to many of us, and to many of us it's not. Some are born weak, and some with herculean energies. If luck isn't what brings about these discrepancies, then what does?
Even in having the ability to think critically, sometimes things just strike the right chord, and conclusions follow - for example, if newton never discovered gravity, another scientist would have, and that is not to say that he wasn't a great mind, he did after all not discover everything that this world has come to believe (or scientifically prove). Being the best, being talented, being a polymath, or simply being happy - when many of our species aren't as lucky, I can attribute to pure luck. (and to the idea that there is a great force beyond us), but perhaps, our acknowledging that may also be pure chance.
In an effort to explain myself to those who believe that they are self-made, I only want to point out that the belief in yourself to be great, rich, earnest or famous, as much as it might be by the power of one's own will, the belief itself might have come about by a chance. If not so, then why are so many others (who may have read the secret or you can win) still faulter when it comes to believing in themselves?
I do stand by that what comes to you is luck, but what you make of it you can attribute it to your own willingness to make something out of it. But that thought, may itself be pure chance. A one in a million miraculous chance. And you should feel damn well lucky to be that chance.
If somebody is educated, it follows that he or she may be able to better utilize and appropriate the opportunities provided to him or her. But at the same time, when one is not educated or a degree-holder, the same might be true. Luck does, indeed, play an important role in the life of each one of us, and to not acknowledge it is mere blasphemy - not of religion, but of our own existence.
On the very basic and scientific level, our existence, our coming to create the world as we know and the evolution of organisms itself may be attributed to either pure luck, or "survival of the fittest". This fitness, is innate to many of us, and to many of us it's not. Some are born weak, and some with herculean energies. If luck isn't what brings about these discrepancies, then what does?
Even in having the ability to think critically, sometimes things just strike the right chord, and conclusions follow - for example, if newton never discovered gravity, another scientist would have, and that is not to say that he wasn't a great mind, he did after all not discover everything that this world has come to believe (or scientifically prove). Being the best, being talented, being a polymath, or simply being happy - when many of our species aren't as lucky, I can attribute to pure luck. (and to the idea that there is a great force beyond us), but perhaps, our acknowledging that may also be pure chance.
In an effort to explain myself to those who believe that they are self-made, I only want to point out that the belief in yourself to be great, rich, earnest or famous, as much as it might be by the power of one's own will, the belief itself might have come about by a chance. If not so, then why are so many others (who may have read the secret or you can win) still faulter when it comes to believing in themselves?
I do stand by that what comes to you is luck, but what you make of it you can attribute it to your own willingness to make something out of it. But that thought, may itself be pure chance. A one in a million miraculous chance. And you should feel damn well lucky to be that chance.
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