Behind Alles Gute........... (g f xavier)

Alles Gute…..I hear this often and again as I venture into.  Is there anything called luck or chance? Dictionary.com depicts Luck as the force that seems to operate for good or evil in a person’s life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities.

To me luck is just a word found out to console one in an unwanted event or a word to downplay one’s capability of achieving something. The words luck and chance are the result of human ignorance. As I read elsewhere, “The rationalist feels the belief in luck is a result of poor reasoning or wishful thinking. To a rationalist, a believer in luck who asserts that something has influenced his or her luck commits the ‘post hoc ergo propter hoc’ logical fallacy”. 

(Not interested in going to the absurdness of trusting a bracelet, ring or chain for luck or fortune. These irrational thinking paved way centuries ahead to creating Goddess Fortuna and so on.)

I read in one of Dozy’s articles, “Chess is a game of cool calculation; luck has nothing to do with it”. There is a good calculation and effort behind what it happens. There is a reason behind anything and everything. There is a reason to score high and to be at the fag end. There is a reason to fall in love and to leave the one whom you love. For everything there is a situation, someone behind, our efforts, etc…

Buddhism would explain better. Buddhism teaches that whatever happens does so because of a cause or causes and not due to luck, chance or fate. In the words of Ven S Dhammika “Becoming sick, for example, has specific causes. One must come into contact with germs and one’s body must be weak enough for the germs to establish themselves. There is a definite relationship between the cause (germs and a weakened body) and the effect (sickness) because we know that germs attack the organisms and give rise to sickness.” There is nothing called luck in Christianity. Everything is from God,

My own experiences endorse the irrationality on the belief in luck, chance or fate. I always found a cause for what happened in life. My effort or my fault, someone or something, etc… My belief in God doesn’t allow me to say a pure rational stand denying Him. But nothing is on our way and nothing is destined. Create your own future and the way it should be. Use all the means for it, primarily God. Have the best fight against all odds. The chemistry is in you.