Life's a gamble and I gamble a lot.
A nice metaphor if you ask me.
Though I'm not even close to be called as gambler, the topic for today does involve gambling a bit.
Luck, a thing most people need and most people think that it is the only thing they need.
Some have good days and some have bad days, but there won't ever be a day where people won't stop cursing their luck or praising it.
Nobody can give a detailed explanation on luck, but they do know that it has to do with certain situations that they chance upon.
Whether you are going for an interview or giving an exam, someone will wish you luck, it has nothing to do with you performing well in the exam or clearing the interview, all it does is give you some hope that you won't fail miserably, obviously the outcome is different but luck plays its part well.
Take flipping coins as an example, you never know which side the coin lands on, but guessing the outcome is what makes it fun.
It can be heads or tails or on those rare occasions the coin lands straight without falling on the head or tail.
You try all the tricks in the bag and still can't figure out what side the coin lands on.
If your luck's good then you'll guess them all or most of them right.
Poker is one of the card games that I like playing online.
I'm not into betting games but poker is fun.
The rules are pretty simple and luck plays the bigger role, in fact take any card game and luck will have a role to play.
You either bet everything and win big or lose everything.
There will be times when you can't stop winning and times when you can't win anything.
If I was given a chance to play poker at a proper casino, I'd never play since anything that involves me putting my money where there's no guarantee that I'll be able to earn more and a possible chance that I'd lose it all doesn't sit well with me.
Another thing is that, while playing poker in real life, you have to maintain an expressionless face also called the 'poker face' otherwise people will know that you have a good hand and won't bet much.
Luck plays its part from the moment you get the cards till the moment the last card is drawn.
You can go from losing the hand to winning the whole pot or vice versa.
Another form of luck that isn't known to many but exists is called 'rookie luck'.
I'll explain with this example.
Stock market or you can call it the investor's playground.
You invest your money by buying shares or selling them, whatever dividend you earn is your profit over the money you invested.
Here you wake up in the morning as a millionaire and go to sleep at night completely broke.
Anything can happen, absolutely anything.
There are even people whose job is to speculate whether the market will rise or fall.
Imagine a certain individual whose been investing in the market for more than 20 years, he one day comes across a young fellow whose just out of college and knows absolutely nothing about the stock market and watches as he puts all his earnings that he got from doing part-time jobs into the market and buys some shares of a no name company.
That man may smirk thinking on the mistake that kid committed and goes over to the young man to give some professional advice.
He has hardly taken a few steps when the market goes up and the company that the young man invested in earns big.
He's shocked and looks again, the company he put the money in doesn't gain much but that young man in that instant has earned more than what he has earned in his whole career as an investor.
The young man didn't knew whether that the market will go up neither did the old investor.
Since it was his first time doing this, we can call it as rookie luck.
First timers, whether it's in guessing games or stock market investments or sports betting have a good chance of winning since they aren't aware of the whole system and just do it as they have a feeling that luck's on their side.
That's rookie luck and it only happens when you're new to those things.
It's a one time phenomenon that's all.
Moving on.
People often confuse luck with fate.
Fate has nothing to do with luck.
Fate is something that is already written and changes by the course of action an individual takes.
Luck is something that follows their fate, if their luck is good then whatever path they chose was best for them otherwise they made a big mistake.
Best way to put it would be like this statement.
Everything that you did today, every action and every step you took has led you to this point where you are reading this statement.
That's your fate, incredible isn't it.
So the final question, what's luck go to do with all this?
Everything.
You can't escape it but accept that luck plays its part in your life.
Science or religion may have their own theories regarding luck but both are far from the truth.
No one knows how it works, but it does and that's what matters.
That's luck.
A nice metaphor if you ask me.
Though I'm not even close to be called as gambler, the topic for today does involve gambling a bit.
Luck, a thing most people need and most people think that it is the only thing they need.
Some have good days and some have bad days, but there won't ever be a day where people won't stop cursing their luck or praising it.
Nobody can give a detailed explanation on luck, but they do know that it has to do with certain situations that they chance upon.
Whether you are going for an interview or giving an exam, someone will wish you luck, it has nothing to do with you performing well in the exam or clearing the interview, all it does is give you some hope that you won't fail miserably, obviously the outcome is different but luck plays its part well.
Take flipping coins as an example, you never know which side the coin lands on, but guessing the outcome is what makes it fun.
It can be heads or tails or on those rare occasions the coin lands straight without falling on the head or tail.
You try all the tricks in the bag and still can't figure out what side the coin lands on.
If your luck's good then you'll guess them all or most of them right.
Poker is one of the card games that I like playing online.
I'm not into betting games but poker is fun.
The rules are pretty simple and luck plays the bigger role, in fact take any card game and luck will have a role to play.
You either bet everything and win big or lose everything.
There will be times when you can't stop winning and times when you can't win anything.
If I was given a chance to play poker at a proper casino, I'd never play since anything that involves me putting my money where there's no guarantee that I'll be able to earn more and a possible chance that I'd lose it all doesn't sit well with me.
Another thing is that, while playing poker in real life, you have to maintain an expressionless face also called the 'poker face' otherwise people will know that you have a good hand and won't bet much.
Luck plays its part from the moment you get the cards till the moment the last card is drawn.
You can go from losing the hand to winning the whole pot or vice versa.
Another form of luck that isn't known to many but exists is called 'rookie luck'.
I'll explain with this example.
Stock market or you can call it the investor's playground.
You invest your money by buying shares or selling them, whatever dividend you earn is your profit over the money you invested.
Here you wake up in the morning as a millionaire and go to sleep at night completely broke.
Anything can happen, absolutely anything.
There are even people whose job is to speculate whether the market will rise or fall.
Imagine a certain individual whose been investing in the market for more than 20 years, he one day comes across a young fellow whose just out of college and knows absolutely nothing about the stock market and watches as he puts all his earnings that he got from doing part-time jobs into the market and buys some shares of a no name company.
That man may smirk thinking on the mistake that kid committed and goes over to the young man to give some professional advice.
He has hardly taken a few steps when the market goes up and the company that the young man invested in earns big.
He's shocked and looks again, the company he put the money in doesn't gain much but that young man in that instant has earned more than what he has earned in his whole career as an investor.
The young man didn't knew whether that the market will go up neither did the old investor.
Since it was his first time doing this, we can call it as rookie luck.
First timers, whether it's in guessing games or stock market investments or sports betting have a good chance of winning since they aren't aware of the whole system and just do it as they have a feeling that luck's on their side.
That's rookie luck and it only happens when you're new to those things.
It's a one time phenomenon that's all.
Moving on.
People often confuse luck with fate.
Fate has nothing to do with luck.
Fate is something that is already written and changes by the course of action an individual takes.
Luck is something that follows their fate, if their luck is good then whatever path they chose was best for them otherwise they made a big mistake.
Best way to put it would be like this statement.
Everything that you did today, every action and every step you took has led you to this point where you are reading this statement.
That's your fate, incredible isn't it.
So the final question, what's luck go to do with all this?
Everything.
You can't escape it but accept that luck plays its part in your life.
Science or religion may have their own theories regarding luck but both are far from the truth.
No one knows how it works, but it does and that's what matters.
That's luck.
Good write-up. I once tried my hand at Casino in US, but lost though a small amount. But apart from luck I didn't have skills or experience which I believe are must with luck.
ReplyDeleteKeep writing, I like it. May beit will inspire me to write my blog one day.
Cheers