Luck

Perspective 1:

“Wherever he turned, there were rejections. Some were from places, which no one had ever heard of, some from places, which people would actually want to work at. He felt like a failure, particularly when everyone around him managed to land up with multiple appointments while he did not even have an interview. In fact, it went to such an extent that he thought of the prospects of being a garbage man!” (No offense to garbage men =P)

Perspective 2:

“Everyone around him had this one thought, “Get a job before this semester!” while he was not even looking for a job. However, one fine day a random application gets him one. He is ecstatic. Others around him, stop and rejoice with him for a moment and continue their search.”

After experiencing both the perspectives within a period of a year, I cannot stop but wonder the effect of chance and luck in our everyday life. I used to think that some people are born lucky and only good things happen to them. As they say, “Experiences make a man.” (Do they say it? or am I saying it? :^) )My experience has thought me that luck is not a characteristic that people are born with. It is more of an entity that strikes you at unexpected and sometimes inappropriate times. And when it strikes, it makes you feel like you are in heaven (If it exists =P).

So to all those people who think that they are unlucky and only misfortune and doom follow them (Blame fantasy novels for this line) think again, maybe luck is just waiting around the corner for an inelastic collision =).

-From a person who has lost the thought that he is not lucky.

PS – When two bodies collide in-elastically, they stick together.

PPS – Forgive the nerdy mokke, no more mokke’s from now =(.