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Old 07-08-2008, 06:20 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I think luck doenst exist, its that something has to occure, wheather is good or bad to people, but good things comming to you, can be named "luck".

if we are talking about good thing comming to you as "luck"...think about someone that put all his effort in something, lefting everything for his goal, thinking about it, and doing everything he can to achieave it, and it is worthless, he end up with nothing, is he doing evrything he can?, or is just one face of the coin where he thinks the world runs
let me explain this, what if in order to achieve something like passing your tests, you only focus on study harder and effiently because is your ultimate goal and nothing and nobody will take you apart from it...
...and you fail those classes, you blame luck right?

what if I tell you that you didnt do your best?
you will fell that this has nothing about you, there are some luck involved and so on, but we are missing something here.
what if because of not being with your firends, you couldnt study with them and one of those friends knew someone that knows the right things to study, or you where so overwhelmed that didnt speak to the teacher and when you needed just a little help to pass the class, the teacher didnt helped you...

so life i more complex than doing the things the you think you can in order to achieve something, you have to be the best you can too, and worry about so much things to have the "luck" at your favor, or let things flow,but also worrying...this is not my striaght opinion but and idea... maybe incomplete.

Im in fact endind my exams and I did the same thing ..I study as hard asa I could and I fail one or maybe more classes, even if as I never done before I stop partying, doing the things that I like, make some bussines, etc..and my goal went for the toilet..its of to fell tireness, stress or even sad when you are soing something in order to get something, or before doing it, but when it worth it and you gets results, it all disapear and you fell proud abot yourself and hopefull, but when this doenst come, all those feelings get stuck in you, at least for some time, and that sucks... and I have being in that possition in all this semester because leving thins in order to get more from my studies I ended up with no achievements and with less activities done or enjoyed...

Im seeking for an answer now, thinking, possitively sometimes, thinkin that maybe next year I will know something realy special in my class, or not passing some class will made me think in something diferent leading me to do something in another direction, leading me to a mayor goal, etc...
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If you think that luck doesn't exist you are a lot less likely to act on lucky opportunities that come along.
If you are at a party and out of millions of people, exactly the person that could help you archive what you are wanting to might be there.
Maybe you want to get published as an author and the person own a publishing house.

You might have a test next day and leave the party early because you focus on having enough sleep for the test.
You missed your lucky opportunity of continuing to talk to that person.

We live in a world where small opportunites can mean a lot. You can't predict when you will have a lucky moment.

At my university we have the opportunity to repeat each exam in math one time. 4.0 is the worst note with which you can still pass and 1.0 is the best.

I wrote 4.0 at my first exam for the course. I went there a second time without learning more than two hours before the second time and got a 1.0.

There another classmate who spent a lot more time in total learning and got a 2,3 at the first exam.
She didn't went for a second time, because she felt happy with the result she reached through learning for the first test and didn't want to learn that much again.
Spending 2 hours on an exam is nothing compared to a semester of having a course.

I used the opportunity of going again into the exam and got lucky. She didn't.
Naturally that's no excuse for learning less. On the other hand there still luck and if you think there isn't you will miss big opportunities that present themselves to you.

Be always on the look out for opportunties to become lucky.
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