I Don’t Believe in Luck.
by be.
December 10th, 2009
I don’t believe in luck. It’s something that I think I started forcing myself to think when I was a kid, and have grown to passionately disbelieve as an adult. The concept of luck takes all credit away from persistence, work ethic, and talent. It’s a simple way of saying, “I’m okay if it doesn’t happen, and I’m fortunate if it does.” This isn’t what I’m about. And I don’t ever consider myself, “Lucky”.
I believe that we create our own luck. We make decisions that create impressions in ways similar to footprints on a path, or fishing lines in the water. They are seen, but not always attractive to those who pass. But when they are, and when they are intriguing enough, they are followed. They are sought after, and trailed, and every move is watched, until the source is discovered and miraculously, those who seek the source are satiated, or, we receive our due catch.
December 10th is historically my least favorite day of the year. It marks the beginning of a two week span of abuse and mistreatment, psychological battering, no sunlight, no physical human contact, and confusion that happened to me when I was 12 years old. But it also marks the period of time that I spent with an 8 year old boy named Aaron Mathis, who has motivated my entire life since 1993.
Today is December 10th. And today, an opportunity presented itself that I couldn’t be afraid of. I have put my line in the water, and now can only wait to see if I receive my due catch. This could mean huge changes in my life, and bring my thoughts on my unlucky date with December 10th full circle.
I won’t ask you to wish me luck or have faith in my decisions. I just ask that you send your positive thoughts.
Have a good night. I’ll be out celebrating this years victories with some close friends.
LLove&Above,
be.
- Bryan 'be.' Espiritu
I don’t believe in luck either. I used to, mainly because I never gave it much thought to think otherwise, but in the last couple of years due to things that have gone on in my life I know that this life has nothing to do with luck. Every reason you described as to why “luck” doesn’t exist are very similar, if not exactly, the same reasons why I feel the same way.
And if it wasn’t weird already, December 10th is one of the best days of one of the best people in my life and today I was celebrating it. Today is my hubby’s birthday. Odd huh, how one person’s feelings of a date can be so opposite of another’s. But such is life and it wouldn’t be anything worth living if we were all on the same page all the time.
**sending positive vibes**
I hope you get your due catch.
here’s a quote that I like: Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you wait, luck will never find you. If you work, ‘luck’ is just the reward.” :)
December 10th is a good day for me, because it’s my Oupa’s (Grandpa) birthday. He turned 87 yesterday and still runs his own farm – on his own. But December 10th, this year was a little different. A childhood friend passed away on December 5th and it was his funeral yesterday. It’s amazing how quickly things change and how one “event” can change things completely.
There are days that I dislike, mostly because it reminds me of things I’d like to forget. This year I decided to create new memories on those days. Started with my birthday and I think I might actually like it a bit more next year.
Creating those new memories can only happen when you’re ready to do so, of course :)
We all create our own luck- nothing falls out of the sky. There’s a famous quote that I live by that goes something like this….
” Luck is what happens
when preparation meets opportunity”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“…that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.” – The Alchemist.