Bad luck is great
It’s always nice to get lucky — but what came for free is what you didn’t learn to earn
What you can get IN SPITE of bad luck — is what truly leaves a mark
TREMENDOUSLY lot in life depends on luck
If you disagree than you’re a fool and can stop reading now
All your outcomes will be greatly influenced by chance
Some of your outcomes will be entirely owed to good fortune
Some of your outcomes will be entirely owed to bad fortune
Most will fall somewhere in between
When you had bad luck but not bad enough to kill you — the rest is up to you: your efforts, your judgment, your skills
This is when you learn
This is when you face reality, for once
In those few efforts that are entirely in your hands
Luck takes away those efforts by rewarding you for nothing
What you got you attribute to whatever intrinsic quality of you and your “hard work” — but the truth is that when you have gotten lucky — you just CAN’T KNOW how much of your success is due to that luck
Thus luck separates you from reality, from truth
If your END is more important to you then your personal journey, than your growth, than your wisdom, than reality — then you’d rather get lucky
Me, however, I LIKE getting unlucky*
I know that what I’m to learn in my struggle is of true value — unlike the feeble offerings of the whimsical lady fortune
*mind you the “unlucky mentality” — in which you literally create your “unluck” — is the worst mindset one can have. I like GETTING UNLUCKY — but I view myself as LUCKY. I refuse to ever view myself as unlucky. I only get unlucky — and that’s lucky too (for that’s when I truly am challenged, that’s when i LEARN)
And there’s TOO MUCH you CAN control, in truth
Matters of TRUE gravity — which are your efforts — you can control 100%
Matters of TRUE gravity — whether you kept your word, how accountable you held yourself — you can control 100%
What you do EVERY DAY — you can control 100% — and THAT is what MATTERS.
Bad luck FORCES you to confront what truly matters
You can’t beguile yourself with your great fortune — you must face reality
You can’t outsource your sense of self-worth to luck — you have to earn it
This is how you become mature as an individual
To be forced to earn something is truly a GIFT
And if you’re so unlucky so as to be the LOWEST OF MAN — this is GREAT!
Now you’re GRACED with the ULTIMATE REVELATION: the truth of your UTTER INSIGNIFICANCE
Now you are forced to face the truth of being NOTHING AND NO ONE
If you can only survive that — you will be the sage among sages
Let bad fortune humble you
Let bad fortune burn away your delusions
Let bad fortune crush your ego
Let bad fortune force you to meet reality
I love bad fortune
The only way is way UP
I love bad fortune to force me to adapt, to challenge me
This is how i ELEVATE