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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

As luck would have it

PS1 (read Pre - Script) : First I would like to acknowledge Rupam's comment on this post. I totally agree that prioritizing is the major tool in effective time management!!! For my Heart's and Brain's take on this you might have to wait till I reach the point where I have to really prioritize some really important decisions in my life!!!

PS2 : On the guest post front, I have sent the requests via emails to all the readers. I know that out of the seven people (yeah a pathetic number, but 'special' people nonetheless!!!) around five have read the mail (how do I know if a person has read it - just my feeling) and one has actually replied telling he will do it! Lets see what the others do......

Now that I have found a somewhat rational answer for what is 'love' and am now trying to figure out if 'I love Her' is grammatically correct(!), I thought I will try to find out more about the concept of 'luck'.

The word 'luck' has also been bothering me quite a bit since it is one of those ambiguous things that people dont actually debate on. For eg I would say that the long weekend before last (when I had gone to my hometown) was the luckiest one this year. I got to meet Her twice. Now on the other hand the first time I met Her during that weekend She might have been thinking "This guy!!! Oh God how much I try to avoid him he is always there!!" and the second time when I met her after 4 days She might have thought "Oh no not agian!!! I dont know if he is lucky or I am unlucky!!!"

Now if you observe what some might consider lucky the others might not!!!

Luck, I believe also plays an important role in both planned and unplanned activities in life. Let us consider an exam - a planned activity. Its true that hard work and smartness are the only way to crack it. But even just before you write the exam, you always think - I have put in my best effort but I hope luck plays its role too!!! But getting to meet her twice - an unplanned activity, is something where luck plays a more important role than your hard-work and smartness!!!

As I see in Wiki, luck is viewed in various perspectives. A rationalist approaches luck using the application of the rules of probability. An excerpt from the wiki page on the rationalist approach

"In this particular perspective, probability is only affected by confirmed causal connections. A brick falling on a person walking below, therefore, is not a function of that person's luck, but is instead the result of a collection of understood (or explainable) occurrences. Statistically, every person walking near the building was just as likely to have the brick fall on them."

Though I am more inclined to believe in this view of luck, I dont want to. It always feels good to know you were just lucky enough to meet Her and not that any random guy also is as probable to get to meet her just as you were!!!

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