I have been hearing the word 'luck' allot lately. Sometimes when you hear something over and over again you start to question what it really means or is. At least I do anyway.
As I ponder the word luck, the word 'fate' comes to mind. Are they the same? Do good things, or bad, happen to people by luck or fate?
From what I have been reading it really comes down do a matter of mindset.
A couple of things stood out to me regarding luck. I read Singmund Frued felt that luck was more to do with Locus of control in a person's life which takes away their personal resopnsibility for what happens to them.
The other one that caught me was from the NIV (Ecclesiastes 9:11) which read "I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all"
I see the same reacurring words in all the examples of luck...fate and chance.
Luck to me is an attitude..good attitude=good luck, bad attitude=bad luck.
I have heard the term "Power of Positive Thinking" many times, in books and speeches and so on....its every where! If good things happen to us more than once we are on a string of good luck, bring in one dinger however and your luck has changed for the worse.
Another definition I read about luck is in Shikhism "Luck is, but lack of self confidence and fruit of idleness."
(All this found via google of course.)
What about people who can't bring them selves to take a risk of any kind with out their lucky shirt, or rabbit foot or hat? Forget their lucky trinket just once and they believe they have set them selves up for ultimate doom and failure...once again bringing me back to attitude.
So what is it...?
Fate?
Karma?
Probability?
Luck?
What brings you good luck? Do you have any 'pre game' rituals? Any must do's before stepping on the stage, or venturing out on your next road trip?
Or do you just leave it all to chance?
I'm not so sure about luck... but I know it REALLY annoys me when people blame lives that they're not content with on bad luck or lack of luck. And I think it's mostly about attitude, too. Most people I know don't do well in life because they're lucky but because they work hard and have a goal. I've had to put in a lot of hard work to change my attitude in the past that I don't *want* to credit it to luck, I want to credit it to me pulling myself up out of the muck of a bad attitude! : )
ReplyDeleteThe only 'lucky' ritual I have is to make corrie kiss the dice when we roll on our team for cranium. And no matter how good my attitude is, nothing makes a better roll than that kiss of luck!
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