Lucky: Life is difficult, and so goes the first sentence in M. Scott Pecks 1978 best seller, The Road Less Traveled. The notion that life is difficult is not an abstruse concept to grasp. For we can all relate to the serpentine like path that life takes us through. Life sometimes presents us with a fight, flight or die scenario. At other times these options present themselves to our loved ones; and sometimes our loved ones die in the midst of these options. Who does life/nature/god favor in our existence? What type of arrows best equip us to survive and thrive multiple decades on this rotating ball, made of rock and minerals? Is it luck, is it logic, is it measurable intelligence, or is it the emotional intelligence, often associated with the zeitgeist, or spirit of the time? The emotionally intelligent, normally discover, intuitively, the paths of least resistance based on what is deemed important to any particular time-period. The zeitgeist of any age is important to the sociologists, genius or quantifiable intelligence to the psychologists, logic to the scientists, and chance to the chaos theorists; and these four academic disciplines are not all friendly with one another. Chance and logic, for example, are mutually exclusive. Creative genius conflicts with logic as well, and so on. There is considerable wobble and wiggle sewn into the fabric of our existence. The quantum world is based on the idea that reality is not fixed at the particle level. But when we move from small scale physics to the cosmological scale of things, laws seem fixed, and controlled by logic, not randomness or chance. For the bulk of my time here, I have relied on my wits to get by. I can figure a lot of stuff out on my own, but this race does not belong to the rational, nor to creative geniuses nor the emotionally intelligent. Chance rules the universe. This is not a novel idea of mine. Many many Many prominent scientists believe likewise. I had suspected that chance (luck) ruled our lives (and the known universe) for years until I experienced something that convinced me otherwise. But, part of me still believes that the hard and fast rules that govern the cosmos, are just that - hard and fast rules that govern *our* cosmos, not others. I am a multi-verse theorist who also believes our universe has more than four dimensions; we just have not discovered them yet. I have around 200 words left to wrap this essay up so here goes: Life is hard. We need help to get through it, and we need lots of help to thrive. If we are smart, either intellectually or emotionally, we have an edge. If we can spot consistent patterns in our environment (logic) and apply them to our daily activities we can also succeed in this world. But, unless spirit channels chance or luck, it is far better to be lucky than anything else. I was born a white male, in America at the height of her once industrial might, when the middle class thrived and I could become pretty much anything I wanted to become. How is it that I am surviving and thriving in this life, momentarily? Is it my smarts, my hard work, my emotional acuity, my deductive reasoning skills or just luck. Its luck primarily, with a little help from the other three. Its very humbling when someone asks you how you were able to accomplished A, B, or C, and you respond with - because Im luckier than you. Just sayin - its a far better thing to be lucky in this life than anything else. In the famous words of one of this countrys greatest philologists, Napoleon Dynamite, Lucky
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 02:21:04 +0000
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