Okay so I know that April is
supposed to be the month of showers, but really! Since April started has the rain
stopped? In this past week alone it feels like every day has been the same;
constant downpours, intermittent drizzle, and dark and depressing skies
overhead. Each morning, the weather manages to give you the doldrums before
you’ve even had a chance to get your cup of morning coffee! I’d hazard a guess
that we’ve been having weather so glum that it could even make the most upbeat
of people (i.e. Pollyanna) want to say bah hum bug!
Although, as truly rubbish as the
weather has been, I’m sure I’m not the only one that finds it slightly amusing
that in March we were all being told that there would have to be water bans
because we’d had so little rain throughout the year.
I wonder if Thames Water, or
perhaps all those that love their gardens dearly, have been doing rain dances
like the Native Americans used to. If so, I do wonder if they could stop now!!!
Surely we’ve had sufficient rain for one month, and I’m sure we can expect some
more later in the year – probably about the time that Wimbledon starts I would
hazard a guess!
On top of a week’s worth of horrific
British weather, added to which the weather reports are advising of more rain next
week and possible flooding, today they announced the rich list! I find this has
put me in an even worse mood than I was in before, and even if you try to avoid
seeing it I can still guarantee that it gets talked about on some news report
or radio station. So unfortunately it’s about as hard to avoid as the constant
rain of the month!
Yet, the subject of the rich list
did start me wondering about the idea of luck! Now the word luck seems to
create a lot of controversy among different people. Many people who are deeply
religious for example do not believe in luck, or if they do they believe that
it is a blessing from God. Others however, believe that luck is all part of
fate, and the notion that certain people are just destined to be lucky, or
wealthy (and on the rich list), or famous, or beautiful etc.
Now regardless as to the origins
and people’s belief about the word, and regardless as to whether luck really
exists or not. I find that can’t help feeling at times that the only kind of
luck you ever get is bad luck. I also tend to find that my luck is weather
related.
I can guarantee the day that I’m
not running late, I haven’t just blow dried and straightened my hair, and it
isn’t p***ing it down with the rain, well then that’s the day that I walk
outside just as the bus that I want arrives. However, the day that I am running
late, I have just straightened my hair, and it’s bucketing down (also usually a
Monday), well then that’s the day that I walk outside just as the bus that I
want is pulling away!
I understand that some will say
this is just coincidence, or perhaps sods law! Yet you’ve got to wonder if they
aren’t all one in the same thing! Coincidence, chance, sods law, probability
(oops – I can now hear mathematicians around the world going crazy), luck,
fate, etc.
According to Roman mythology,
Fortuna was the goddess of fortune and was the personification of luck. Yet she
was also said to be the goddess of fate.
Now fate, luck, however you wish
to look at it, suggests in some way that we are all dependent on some kind of
higher force making opportunities for us. Yet in a strange sort of a way some I
believe may find this comforting, except what if your lot in life is not to be
fortunate or lucky!
There are also those who want to
believe that we make our own luck in life. Yet I’m not entirely sure I buy this
notion either, and I refer back to the rich list to which this year Cheryl Cole
features on it!!
To me, it seems that some people
are just lucky in life (granted Cheryl Cole may not have felt all that lucky
when the papers where covered with stories of Ashley Cole’s infidelity and her
being kicked of the US X-factor), but some would say she’s also had a lot of
luck to become a household name in the first place!
Yet to be fair it’s not just Cheryl
Cole, its lots of people. And this started me wondering if the advent of
reality television has made it easier to find your good fortune, or make your
own luck!
In the past decade our TV’s are
filled with reality TV programmes, and the everyday people that go onto these
shows seem to go on to fame and fortune! It’s also no longer just about talent
as you have the likes of TOWIE and Made in Chelsea, which are really just fly
on the wall documentary’s. Yet they have certainly sky-rocketed their casts into
the public eye, but was that luck, good fortune, or were they all destined to earn
easy money and become household names?
Who knows, but I reckon it would
still be nice to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Be the child of
someone in the top ten of the rich list, that way you don’t ever need luck, or
chance, or good fortune etc. You’ve got mummy or daddy’s Visa or MasterCard at
hand instead!
And just for all those thinking that money doesn’t always make you happy, I bet those on this year’s rich list would disagree!
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