Luck fascinates us.

More so our imagination!

Who does not want to be a fortunate guy?...Or a fortunate gal for that matter!

But what do I mean when I say I am fortunate, or someone else is so?

Obviously I am referring to my achieving something that means a lot to me.

Had I not achieved it, I would either have been a 'not so fortunate' or an unfortunate person.

If I was not expecting it and did not get it too, I would be 'not so fortunate'.

But if I was expecting it and then I did not get it, I would be an unfortunate guy.

How much you value a thing - on that depends your being as fortunate or as unfortunate, in case either you get it or lose it.

Now what do I value?

And why?

Because I feel that the quality of my life will improve if I get this thing, or it will deteriorate if I lose it.

Is the quality of my life so much dependent on external things that they have made me their puppet?

And where is the quality left when I have turned into a puppet?

I have lost my freedom!

Being fortunate has cost me my freedom!

Even being unfortunate costs to me my freedom!

My freedom is the biggest natural condition of the quality of my life.

Now my being fortunate or unfortunate has cost me the quality of my life as such.

And the reason I wanted to be fortunate was just this only - the quality of life.

What a paradox have I been trapped in!

As I went lucky and thought my life quality would improve, it immediately deteriorated.

I was no more, free!

Luck has done this to me!

Whether fortune or ill-fortune - both are the culprits!

Can I come out of the very maze of this thing called fate, destiny or fortune; and be my own master myself, thus improving the quality of my life in its essence?

Then luck - or anything for that matter - does not hold any importance for me.

I give luck a fig then!

It does not exist for me any more now!

OK, one thing more that I keep hearing often from people is that success is 80% hard work and 20% luck.

I do not understand.

I do not understand what hard work is.

But that later! First let me deal with this 20% luck thing, whatsoever it is!

Fate, by its very definition, is something that is pre-ordained - something already written in the book of your destiny - and that too by none less than God Himself.

The dictates of destiny can simply NOT be overwritten.

And if they cannot be overwritten by any damn thing as petty as we are; why to do work at all, leave aside working hard!

Or at least why take psychological tension while working, whether hard or otherwise!

But we know we are only crying for the moon when we are waiting for our stars to smile at us. We know - something very rational within our otherwise highly irrational psyche does know we are just fooling ourselves.

And so we take all the trouble of doing the worst of the actions on earth that hard work is!

Even that does not work!

How will it? Just by the very dint of being hard, it has lost all its sharp edges and gone blunt - how will it be able to cut the fence in the way?

In fact, success is a lock, of which no key has yet been made; nor will it be in the near future or far!

As a deeper fact, success is not a lock at all.

It is only a mirage of a lock; as are the hard work and luck, its mirage-keys only!

They are not the reality - they are only there in the mind.

When the real thing goes asleep, they appear in the shape of 3-D ghosts and possess the mind with their delusive existence, which NOT is!

We are living in a fool's paradise.

Shall we take a little step out of it and be free in one single go?

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