Lucky? Sometimes Very! Usually Never

By Manishika Shukla

“God! You scored 97.4% in your high school board exams. Quite lucky must say!” says a friend of mine. A person who has been guided by the thought that fortune overrides every achievement known to history of a person.

You did well in exams, you’re lucky.

You won the science quiz, you’re lucky.

You got the first position in a chess game, you’re lucky.

You are the CEO of a big company, you’re lucky.

The insecurities of their lives have blindfolded them praise and blame fortune and fate for everything. They believe that fortune leads one’s life, and if one succeeds, fortune is the  reason and if fails, still it’s fortune.

“You might be having a bad luck, that is why everything keeps on getting wrong” says my aunt.

No! It’s not about luck. Luck was never the reason. God never chooses to impair your efforts. The less the efforts, the less the outcome.

Might be luck one in a hundred times, it might be possible that you were casually singing while walking down the road, when some music director happened to be there by chance and casted you for his next album. But what if you can’t sing well? Luck pairs with the skilled, and impairs the unskilled.

This required no rocket science to be understood that luck might be a factor only when you’ve got the potential.

“Afterall, of what purpose is a car with no fuel?”

I believe in the concept that a person is the master of his own fate. It hasn’t been that I’ve not gotten the support of luck in my life, but I’d never rely onto luck for my life choices. I am not the person who would like to get dragged along the ocean currents. I love going with the flow only when it flows towards my side.

I chose roads which returned me hardships, but even if I fail to reach my destination tomorrow, I’d never say that I was born with a poor luck. I’ll walk on this road, I’ll stumble, I’ll give up everything that comes as a barrier in between, I’ll fall.

Even if I fall, my luck can never reason out it.

I believe in destiny, I believe that sometimes fortune brings unexpected turns in our life, sometimes we run across a person and then stick to that person for a lifetime, sometimes random strangers who later become lifelong friends are the mattresses for the woody bed. Definitely all these people make life easier. Some people leave us in the midway, some join us at the end, some decide to watch from faraway, some decide to shut their eyes all the time. Where is luck? At the end,

“When human nature failed to explain the abrupt happenings in life, everyone called it fortune”

A fair theory!

By Manishika Shukla