I often find the harder I work, the more disappointed I become when it ultimately accumulates towards no personal reward whatsoever. Not that I consider this typical of the worker breed, but it invalidates my personal agreement regarding any immediate undertones of the initial statement.
Dismissing the notion of "luck" as some supernatural force one can possess for better or worse, and instead taking it as a rough scorecard with regard to plus or minus points on ones' personal successes, it does irk me when people say things such as "I make my own luck" or "I don't believe in luck". Sequences of chance occurences can and will unfold to seemingly reward some and punish others. As much as hard/smart work may pay off on a small scale, they are no defence to a good set of unknown, uncontrolable variables.
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Date: 2003-10-08 02:35 am (UTC)So that's where I've been going wrong :)
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Date: 2003-10-08 02:44 am (UTC)Re: If livejournal posts this, like, 8 times I'll be pissed...
Date: 2003-10-12 06:38 am (UTC)If livejournal posts this, like, 8 times I'll be pissed...
Date: 2003-10-08 06:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-08 08:15 am (UTC)Dismissing the notion of "luck" as some supernatural force one can possess for better or worse, and instead taking it as a rough scorecard with regard to plus or minus points on ones' personal successes, it does irk me when people say things such as "I make my own luck" or "I don't believe in luck". Sequences of chance occurences can and will unfold to seemingly reward some and punish others. As much as hard/smart work may pay off on a small scale, they are no defence to a good set of unknown, uncontrolable variables.