Feeling unlucky? Take heart, it's just a random apex of possibilities........

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.