Superstitious Me

I always considered myself beyond those feelings of "if you got it right by wearing the white top and black skirt" this time, then may be you should wear the same combination every time"! Esp. when the dress you are wearing, or the vehicle you traveled by or the first person you spoke to that day has no direct correlation with the "success metric"! But no, looks like I have done it too! Esp. during tough times, those little 'lucky charms' seem to be peeping their head out n saying..'use me'!!!

It might sound ridiculous, but there seem to be many who fall a prey to this wierd tendency to correlate the 'not so correlated' factors to success. And busy basking at the glory of present success, we forget to register in our mind things that 'really did make a difference'.

That makes me wonder if success indeed can be reasoned out? Are there always these list of things that indeed made a difference? Does the age old adage of 'hard work leads to success' and 'secret of success is consistency of purpose' really explain everything ? Is there this big facet of unexplainable 'something' that is a significant ingredient? We try n call it Gods blessing, luck, miracle, life levels out..n many such things!

Nah, I am not trying to say that its all about luck, I am wondering if luck is a player, then not all of my future is correlated to what I do today or ever did in the past. Whats so new about that ? Nothing! We all know that future is not predictable, there is a lot of uncertainty and no one knows what 5 days from now is really going to be all about! But then, if that true, they why at all are we trying to be careful and planned and prepared for something that we have no clue about! What is the mad rat race all about? Think short term, plan short term n do what your heart n soul is happy about! Anything beyond that seems unconceivable to the human brain.

Then why try and predict something and be so scared if someone actually goes back to trends out ur prediction over the years ? Would the curve overlap with reality ? With a remote probability of it does, can you be rest assured that the overlap will continue ?

That doesn't seem very convincing, does it? Guess I need more coherence...Will continue!