"LUCK", by Stephanie

I don't believe in Luck. Good luck, bad luck: I've found myself falling into both categories without perceiving it as "luck" per se. The events that encourage, bombard, whisper, promise, deny, appear in dreams, are all part of the larger wholesomeness of life itself. That we have given these forces the name 'luck' is curious and most probably something that our ancestors referred to as a need to explain what could not be easily understood. There is still the same need to identify and define, unexplainable mysteries remain and shall always exist in everyday life.

Good and Bad happen all the time, every day, in all settings. Is this due to luck? Is it due to nature and our small standing in the universe? Is it just random junk that rains down? What to we do with it? ... turn it into an opportunity, or recoil from it damningly? It all depends on our outlook, background, previous encounter(s), whereby we mold it into what it becomes, if we can. Sometimes it feels as though we are getting some kind of divine assistance or help from an unknown source. And we give thanks, gratitude and feel "lucky." Sometimes it feels as though we are marked and something or someone is simply out to get us, and we ask "why?" I like that we're here for such a short time really, and whatever comes is relative to what happens to the next person. Our grumblings about being unlucky may be something deeply wished for by another. Our good fortunes may be small change to another type of person elsewhere.

Luck is a kind of reference made up in our mind that shoots us through all kinds of opportunity or obstacle. We may "feel" lucky or unlucky, which is a fleeting period of time. The next moment will bring us a new and oddly different series of thoughts. It's a remarkable facet of living that so much is set before us and that we have to sort it out in our own particular way! Seneca wrote that “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” So it comes from US. It's a recipe. Go out and make your own luck! In this, I do believe.