Is there such a thing as luck?
Are some people just born lucky and
some other of us just born unlucky?
Is ''luck'' something magic bestowed on some
very special people or is it something that can
be scientifically proven to be ''real''?
Personally I believe that luck is a term for
a phenomenon based on a cognitive mindset,
an optimistic and positive perception/interpretation
of an event/something.......xyz
Lucky = The apex of random positive possibilities colliding
and interpreted as ''being lucky''.
Unlucky = The apex of random negative possibilities colliding
and interpreted as ''being unlucky''.
-How lucky you are to have been born with so
many creative talents, she said.
-Lucky? How do you mean? I responded.
-Well, nobody in my family has any artistic
talents and I can only draw stick figures, she retorted.
I have been told this so many times that
I have started to wonder what the motivation
may be behind the statement:
''How lucky you are to have been born with so
many creative talents''.
It may be intended as a compliment but
the way I experience it, it
doesn't feel like an acknowledgment of all the
years of hard work, successes and failures and hours of
honing one's skill.
Nor does it feel as an acknowledgment of the sacrifices
made of one's waking time spent in the solitary pursuit
needed in order to become an expert, a master, a virtuoso.
A long time ago when by accident, or destiny? I
became a regular contributor to a small publication,
I wrote a piece on gifts/talents and how I believe
that we are all born with gifts of one kind or another,
it's just that many of us don't tend to look for it.
If there is an activity that when you do it you
loose yourself, time flies and you feel energized
then that may be your gift.
(And it does not include doing harm to anybody
or yourself. Or any critter at all.)
A gift is in my view something that begins as a ''seed''
but with perseverance and dedication to the nurture of it
it grows, expands, develops, and the more we spend time
being/doing/with it, the more creative we become.
''Being creative is often misunderstood as a
stroke of luck or a rare talent, when in reality,
it is a deliberate, consistent and learned process.''
(don't know)
In my view, the one time that I
do believe it's all about luck, is
where we happen to be born.
Half of gifted students
fly under the radar.
(ABC)
about the image: ''Darkman''
Graphite on watercolor paper
Some editing in Elements.
