There are people who usually say "you're so lucky"! Or, in our humility or to show gratitude when something good happens to us, we sometimes react by saying that we were lucky. But, mathematical probabilities and our blessings apart, to which we must always be grateful, it’s fair to say that to be lucky takes a lot of work.
We make our own luck. It implies taking risks, getting outside of the box, suffering, committing ourselves, leaving a track, being uncomfortable, seeking for something. To turn the stones out, if we have to. I order to be lucky, we always have, by definition, to get out of our comfort zone, to sweat our pants, to accommodate ourselves, to face solitude. To the point that, sometimes, when I go to sleep, I sometimes think of creepy things, like being literally and eternally alone in an eternal sleep if I die in my sleep ☺... things that don’t matter to anyone, but that we end up thinking about when we are TRULY alone... But I'm lucky.
Fortunate are those, for a start, who have friends that may help in bad times. Because to be lucky takes a lot of work, but there are more people that go for it, so we always find others like us, who left their comfort zone to look for it.
To be lucky takes a lot of work.
It has setbacks, it has bitter moments, it has the reverse of the medal.
But it's a kind of fate and is even considered its synonym.
Not the fate of the crystal ball, but the one that is inside us, the luck that is our calling, that we have to fulfill in order to be truly ourselves.
Isabel
www.isabelnolasco.com
Photos: Morning moon in Díli bay, East Timor.
Taken with my Canon EOS 5D MKIII.
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