Luck by Choice
” You are very lucky”..don’t know how many times I hear that. Lucky Me? ..Ideally I should have agreed to it. A career by design, enviable lifestyle , family and bunch of friends who loves me despite what I am.:)
But deep inside, I shriek when I hear this term . I work fourteen hours a day. My last memory of having slept eight hours is frozen in National Archive of Amnesia.My facial wrinkles are getting prominent waiting at airports. Jetsetting on airplane food and live out of a suitcase at least fifteen days a month to be the lucky person I am. So, the debate continues.Is there a factor called Luck? I believe , we have a cycle of failures and success. Most people are lucky not only because of right decision capacity but also standing by their wrong decisions. I have made both and have forgiven myself for making wrong ones.
Luck comes when you do not give up. Luck follows when you believe in yourself no matter what the world thinks of you. We all make choices in life. To go ahead, to struggle,to pay a price of what you want..
Recently I met a single man of fifty years age. Very bitter about being lonely,he kept talking about all the sacrifices he made for his brothers .Precisely the reason , he did not marry.
To me, it was a choice.To him,it is luck. So,it is luck by chance or by choice? I let my readers decide that.
December 12th, 2009 at 8:42 am
People say “Lucky you” are actually seeing themselves in what you achieved. For them you are lucky because they could not achieve in life what you have, whether it is success, or money or lifestyle.
I find these people not happy for us being lucky but they see us as if we got luck by chance & not them.
Only the person himself knows what price he has paid for being lucky.
So it definately Luck by Choice & not chance…
December 12th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Isn’t luck that last factor which supports one’s own choice?
December 14th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Very tough one to crack !!!
a small situation – and will let the readers decide whether it is luck or choice.
a bunch of students enroll for an MBA degree in finance in one of the most prestigious institutes of India targeting to graduate in 2008. The campus placement record till 2006 and 2007 is excellent. All their seniors are offered (and most accept lucrative salaries). They are all elated… increasing salary trends raise the expectations sky high. And then the meltdown hits the world.
No companies come for campus recruitments. They start running around to secure a job.. but with financial meltdown, nothing seems to be there anywhere. in the end, they accept menial jobs are management trainees in small time companies so that they can make ends meet – else even these jobs will go !
the next year, economy again looks up. the companies again start coming for campus recruitments. their juniors get much better offers – and they are happily accepted. Since these guys are already graduated, they are no longer eligible for the campus rounds.
now my question
The batches of 2007, 2008, 2009 all did the same things (ignoring the earlier and the latter batches). so what makes the batch 2008 – a loser (figuratively and comparatively speaking)
what were the choices (and based on what data / presumptions) that went bad for the batch 2008.
how can a kid of approx 20 know what will the future trend of the course they are joining.
luck by chance / luck by choice ! I leave it to the readers
claimer : this is an actual scenario and bears close resemblance to true events that happened with people who are mostly alive !!!