The year 2012 - a Dragon year in Chinese calendar, another delightedness and excitement to people who are born in 1976, lucky year for them as they say, but what do us really mean by luck? What is our understanding about it? People has different opinions or interpretations, but in a more broad context, it is a circumstances of (human) life brought by fortune, beneficial or not, but as a whole, people’s perception can be categorized into two – those who believe, and those who are not. The term “luck or lucky” has been part of peoples communication for a long-period of time, In fact, until now, this word has been part of our common expressions such as – you’re lucky!, good luck!, you’re the next lucky winner!, better luck next time! And so on. Decades or centuries has passed, this word is already imbedded in people’s mental reservoir that transformed into a principle that many are driven with, e.g. placing a bet in a Lottery, and thinking that luck might be in-favor of them this time, or dropping entries in national contest’s drop- boxes trying their luck to win the price of latest model car. Relevant to this, there is also the concept of - Law of attraction, the positive and negative vibes, or more common term as vibrations - the element which is present in a form of aura. On the other hand, there is also what we known as karma,- a law of consequences, just like vibrations, karma comes in a positive and negative- or good and bad karma, as belief said, it comes back to you if you’ve done either good or bad things in other person.
But, I strongly believe that everyone is the provider of their own luck, I prefer the word “Opportunity” than luck. If you’ve done something good - you’ve just created yourself an opportunity to receive goodness and blessings (positive vibrations or good karma) in your life, either in personal or professional. Going back to the example scenario above; if you placed your bet in a Lottery, or if you keep on sending your entries in a national contests means - you’ve just provided an opportunity for yourself to become a multi-millionaire or instant winner of a brand new car, but if you’re not betting or providing raffle entries, and you keep on dreaming and saying that if you won, you will buy these and that!, help the orphans and the poor!, or do some charity works!, I don’t think if luck is in-favor to you. This also applies in many aspects of people’s lives such as career, business, love, or parenting. In other words, - Luck requires great amount of hard-work, commitment, discipline, determination, honesty, productive habits, and proactive works in order to convert luck into opportunities. These paradigms will bring a huge amount of luck or opportunities in people’s life, even the Bible emphasized in II Thesalonians 3:10, our Lord Jesus Christ said that we should work to eat, those who don’t work (lazy) should not eat, and this is exactly telling us about the fruit of our labor. The Greek philosopher Sophocles said more than 2,000 years ago; “Heaven will never help the person who will NOT ACT.”
Everybody is delighted to welcome and embrace the year 2012 Dragon year, but I believe, the real Dragon that exist is the Dragon WITHIN US, if we awaken it, it will blow flame – by delivering our promises in our selves of change for the New Year!, a self-reinvention, to become actively industrious, generous, understanding, hardworking, and responsible individuals, acquire new skills, new learning, become a newly motivated employee, or start a businesses, in order to gain good opportunities (or luck) in our life for the next (11) eleven-months of this New Year, this new mentality will repatriate many people from poverty in the long-run, and survey rates on people who are saying they are poor, hungry, or no-income will decrease. Crimes of stealing, cheating, or robbery will deteriorate. We are now in the Creative Age, therefore, we should be creative, - awake the Dragon within and start a new YOU! Happy New Year! And God bless us all!
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