LUCK.. BY Chance….
The movie name never got me to think so much as it does today. What is Luck and what does the absence of this word mean to any of us? The meaning of Luck as it stands is “Luck or fortuity is a belief in good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or chance which happens beyond a person's control”- seems more like a risk definition given in Insurance :)
What is chance? Risk…. so do we mean to say that living is a risk- we are living by chance- all this life is a chance. Chance- to do what? Chance to bring change.. chance to conquer…chance to just live??
Not sure actually. Why is that we make a comment- “That guy is so lucky- he just has everything in this world”. We may find a Vijay Mallaya lucky or a Sushmita Sen lucky. They have money, glitz, glamour and all, and they also are considered lucky by us, but do they consider themselves lucky? What would their definition of luck be then? Get richer, become famous yet again ( as i dont believe in more famous and less famous)- its like lycra- either you have it or you dont..
Does that mean we should refrain from using the word luck and this should be used only for purely technical usage like winning a lottery, - that’s definitely lucky, or surviving death- may be more than once- that’s lucky. But have we thought if that person who won the lottery, considers himself lucky or if the one surviving death thinks that he is lucky? In all this luck and ill luck, where is the commoner stuck?
We work like never before
We live like we want more
We sleep like we don’t want to be up
We rise as if we never were up
What are we gaining?
What are we doing?
We live by every day
When life isnt sure any day
Then why cry for luck
Its like crying foul on your buck
If its yours , it shall be
If its not, don’t presume it to be
If destiny is yours, it shall be
If it is not, we have to see
What we can make of what we have
And live like a run to save.
We spend more than 3/4th of our time sitting at our office desks, punching away letters on our keyboard and trying to make some money to have a decent livelihood. Have we thought what we actually want to do with our lives? May be not, may be yes, to some life may be being a workaholic, many take pride in it. It is quite a shame that, they would not be seeing their kids grow, hear their parents talk or even look at the blue sky above. There is no time for one to laze.
The lesser blessed mortals- may find us very lucky… we sit in an air conditioned room, we can see , we can talk and vola!! We even crib!! J
In all that I have seen today and the thoughts that raced in my mind today, all that I can figure out to tell my mind is that.. “HANG ON.. LIFE GOES ON…. “ “WHAT GOES AROUND.. EVENTUALLY HAS TO COME AROUND…”
The movie name never got me to think so much as it does today. What is Luck and what does the absence of this word mean to any of us? The meaning of Luck as it stands is “Luck or fortuity is a belief in good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or chance which happens beyond a person's control”- seems more like a risk definition given in Insurance :)
What is chance? Risk…. so do we mean to say that living is a risk- we are living by chance- all this life is a chance. Chance- to do what? Chance to bring change.. chance to conquer…chance to just live??
Not sure actually. Why is that we make a comment- “That guy is so lucky- he just has everything in this world”. We may find a Vijay Mallaya lucky or a Sushmita Sen lucky. They have money, glitz, glamour and all, and they also are considered lucky by us, but do they consider themselves lucky? What would their definition of luck be then? Get richer, become famous yet again ( as i dont believe in more famous and less famous)- its like lycra- either you have it or you dont..
Does that mean we should refrain from using the word luck and this should be used only for purely technical usage like winning a lottery, - that’s definitely lucky, or surviving death- may be more than once- that’s lucky. But have we thought if that person who won the lottery, considers himself lucky or if the one surviving death thinks that he is lucky? In all this luck and ill luck, where is the commoner stuck?
We work like never before
We live like we want more
We sleep like we don’t want to be up
We rise as if we never were up
What are we gaining?
What are we doing?
We live by every day
When life isnt sure any day
Then why cry for luck
Its like crying foul on your buck
If its yours , it shall be
If its not, don’t presume it to be
If destiny is yours, it shall be
If it is not, we have to see
What we can make of what we have
And live like a run to save.
We spend more than 3/4th of our time sitting at our office desks, punching away letters on our keyboard and trying to make some money to have a decent livelihood. Have we thought what we actually want to do with our lives? May be not, may be yes, to some life may be being a workaholic, many take pride in it. It is quite a shame that, they would not be seeing their kids grow, hear their parents talk or even look at the blue sky above. There is no time for one to laze.
The lesser blessed mortals- may find us very lucky… we sit in an air conditioned room, we can see , we can talk and vola!! We even crib!! J
In all that I have seen today and the thoughts that raced in my mind today, all that I can figure out to tell my mind is that.. “HANG ON.. LIFE GOES ON…. “ “WHAT GOES AROUND.. EVENTUALLY HAS TO COME AROUND…”
3 comments:
Life is all as per the perception of the person seeing it ... for you watching TV, a MIss India winner is lucky... No doubt it is a moment of happiness but the future ...maybe the Miss India feels unlucky to have won it.....The same goes for definition of good and bad, complicated and simple.... WORLD is ROUND ...SO are the matter in it too.... THERE ARE NO OPPOSITES... They are all different sides of one coin only!!!!
Da...First of all what triggered these thoughts in you? Secondly as Jyo said Luck or being Lucky is very subjective and changes from person to person. Although we might find Sushmita Sen lucky she might the people leading a non-glamorous life lucky for they have all the time in the world to cater to their personal life and not being watched upon! It is also a means to console ourselves of the mishappenings and/or the lack of something in our lives. As humans we love to blame the other person and point fingers and here too we are no different just that we point here to something inanimate such as Luck or Destiny or Chance!
Love your post.
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