LUCK & YOU

Recalling an old story...

There was once an Akashvani (A prediction from the heaven) that there will be no rainfall in the village. The farmers were horrified but knowing at the same time that it will be fruitless to work on their farms, they went back home. However, one farmer remained and kept tilling his farm. Surprised by his acts, the Indra (the rain god) appeared and asked him if he hadn’t heard the Akashvani. “I did hear it,” replied the farmer. “Then, why are you still tilling your land?” asked Indra. “Because I am afraid that if I cease cultivating for the next twenty years, then I may forget how to cultivate,” said the farmer. This made Indra wonder that if he ceased causing rainfall for next twenty years, then he may also forget how to cause rainfall. Hence, he disappeared and within seconds, there was a shower of rain.

Your luck is like the rain for a farmer, you cannot control it. Whenever we look at and hear about a successful person, we often have one thing to say that we all strive but only few are lucky enough to succeed. Why don’t we look at it as more effort on the part of successful person and less effort on part of others? Let us believe that a factor called luck exists and impacts our chances for success but let me ask you one thing, ‘Can you really determine being lucky or unlucky, in general? Or today being lucky or unlucky day for you?’ No you cannot. Nobody can.

Luck is like a random game of cards. When you play cards, you are never sure of what cards you will have. Similarly, you can never be sure whether the luck is at your side while you are putting your hands in a job. Nobody is eternally lucky and nobody is ever unlucky. It is all random.

Still, we can control something and that is our efforts and our hopes. We can strive for our aims like the farmer or lest we may forget how to achieve. The biggest achievement is not that we achieve what we had aim for but the biggest achievement is knowing that you are unlucky in a job and still trying to achieve that goal in a hope that one day, you will definitely achieve.

We cannot control our luck but we must keep striving and one day, even the worst of luck will turn good and we will achieve. It is not necessary to be born with a silver spoon but it is of utmost important that you must always strive for that silver spoon...