Never Changed With Time

There are some things that never change with time, place or culture. A willingness to be lucky is one of these. My dictionary defines luck as “An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favourable outcome”. We all realise at some time that our entire life is never in our control – leave the control over the things happenings around us. We can call it fate, destiny, or whatever we love to call it. All of us sometimes wonder how and why things happened the way they happened; or the way we never imagined.

On the other hand, there is another phenomenon called déjà vu: here, you get to see exactly what you feel you unconsciously ‘saw’ it. Many a times, this is our innermost fear and unconscious desires coming true.

What our eyes can see and brain can process is only a part of the greater truth. In that sense, the whole human civilisation has been trying to do only one thing – to interpret the uninterpretable – and the basic premise is that we can do it!

There are some of us who just wonder at the turn of things, some of us call it divine and stop, some others consider these as part of the greater conspiracy – good or evil depends on whether we think positive or negative. So, in the end all the progress depends on those who are childish and ‘unwise’. They won’t take things for granted and try to form logic out of weird things.

Let us come back to luck. What makes us lucky or what we call unlucky is another mystery. Good things happen to bad people and bad to good. There are no favourable turn of things even for those who have led a life of integrity and kindness. In the zeal of explaining such things some religions, and even many scientists have said that our present life is not just the whole cake. It is just a small piece of the bigger cake, or just one step of a much larger design. Hence, often what happens now is some times related to what had happened in some other time and space. Dr. Brian Weiss in his series of experiments and psychological studies have concluded this that there is life after death, rebirths occur and there is something immortal within us which keeps on learning and travelling. But, in this growing materialistic world, we never take such logics to heart and want everyone on our TV sets. I think it was said that if it was not on the BBC, it was not news. And similarly, if it can’t be explained the way our teachers explained things in our schools, it can’t be true. It helps because there are many ways to reach the same truth, and hence such demands would also be answered – sooner or later.

Good luck is what attracts us like nothing else. All of us want to be lucky. And further, we want to be associated with lucky people, lucky companies, lucky stocks, or even lucky bloggers. On the other hand, we avoid the unfortunate people and things. But at the end of the things, we forget one fact – nature and life don’t discriminate among us the way our society, religion, and governments try to. For nature, no one is a dearer and some other the black sheep.

Those who are lucky at a point of time, may feel that they are really ‘different’, forgetting that luck can never be taken for granted. Many a times, they take their capabilities and endeavours as ‘perfect’ or the ‘best’. This makes them put fewer efforts subsequently. This can explain why some sportsmen perform brilliantly at the start and then remain mediocre for their entire life. Or the one-film wonders.

On the other hand, the ones who are unlucky take lessons out of their experiences. They come to know the value of time, efforts, perseverance, and try to understand what they could have done to change the way it went. Even in the worst unlucky happenings, there are always some takeaways. Of course this is possible only if one remains positive. But if one does, s/he comes out improved, better prepared and more experienced.

Hence in the long run it helps if you were unlucky some times and many times. Being lucky is something that works only if you are unaware of it. So those of us who take lessons out of our unlucky experiences and don’t allow the ‘lucky we’ feeling sink into our head – will be the winners.