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somewhere sometime somehow in our lives, we do find ourselves looking/searching/putting hope in the abstract concept of luck. luck cannot be measured, can only be viewed from our personal POVs and can be EXTREMELY subjective. for me, luck is the product of forced affirmation. after something really good or really bad happen to us, we, as humans, will attribute the negatives to externalities and the positives to self. if we are able to find things/objects/people/factors to blame our misfortune on, then that's that. otherwise, we create this alternative channel through which we push our blame onto. ("oh damn i got caught in the rain.. just my luck"). similarly, if we are unable to find sufficient reasons to credit ourselves for the good that happens to us, we will also say things like "oh great i got the highest grade in class though i didn't study that hard. i'm really in luck!". so i guess we humans become lazier by the day as we use this concept of luck as a convenient excuse to account for various aspects of our lives.

putting things in perspective does help to avoid that pothole. however, as Asians, those who do not wish to seem like they are boasting their achievements or being seen as trying too hard to find that perfect excuse to explain their misfortune will tend to use luck for justifications. moreover, luck is a concept which many Singaporeans, if not all, will subscribe to given that we already have so much on our plates and only 10% of our pea brains function at best. so bad/tragic/disastrous/good/happy/exhilarating things happen and because of our laziness, these things are mostly explained by that stroke of luck that exists somewhere in us.

i guess i have always been the lucky girl with a comfortable life and i have always been in luck with studies. i am also lucky enough to be exposed to all kinds of leisure activities, be it sports, arts, music, dance, or even travel. however, all's not smooth sailing. there are times when my luck fails, and i stumble and fall along the way, but i believe that when things go so bad, they can't get any worse so i know my luck will return in due time. i am also lucky to have met wonderful people in the various activities i involve myself in and i think i am lucky to have the opportunity to work with the best, be it in school or at my internship. however, as much as many tell me that i have been unlucky in things like love, i beg to differ because the concept of love is so noble that it would not justify to associate love with luck. in any case, i still believe that love deserves the highest order of regard and people should stop blaming misfortunes of love or attributing happiness in love on luck.

irony of it all is that I still like this song. hur hurs.