Do you believe in luck? Let me tell you why I don't...

Friday, 21st of April 2023 [62]

Did you think this post was going to be about cute dogs? Sorry… I might have clickbite you a little. I just wanted a nice cover picture for my article 😉 If you’re here for dogs, run now, while you can or else you’ll be stack here for 2k words!

This week has been one hell of a ride! A nice one to be exact. And while the plan was to go to the forest to capture some melted mushrooms for Fungi Friday, the weather and other circumstances have changed that plan and here I am, talking about luck instead. Sit tight - I went on a little bit of a tangent here one days this week, after pondering the recent events.

There is no doubt that creating a good quality content on Hive is a solid base for creating your wealth on Hive, but even if your content is really good there are many factors that influence the number of votes that translate to your earnings. In other words, no matter how consistent you are, your earnings will always fluctuate.

Sometimes it can be very disheartening when you know you created something really good, yet your content was barely noticed or appreciated. Those of you who read me for a while alread know that I don’t believe in luck, but for the ease of understanding I will say that luck sometimes has to be on your side in order to receive good votes on your content.

Of course, that ‘luck’consists of many factors, including, but not limited to:

• number of people you interact with on a daily basis,

• number of people that are online at the time you published the post,

• number of people you convinced (with the quality of content you publish, not by asking) that you content is good enough to add you to their automatic voting list,

• the time and resources you spent on promotion of your published post,

• the size of the wallet of people who saw your post,

• the tags you used in creation of your post,

• the actual quality of your post.

You see, when you break down ‘the luck’ like I did above, you realise that luck consist of numbers and many of those numbers depend on you and the time and effort you invested in creation of your post, which then also translates to the quality. The quality of your content, interactions with other people and resourcefulness in self-promotion.

So… does luck really exist?

In my opinion in doesn’t. If I had to push it to the contrary, I’d say that luck is something that seems to be on your side, once you realise what you want and you started taking steps towards achieving it.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Upon a deeper look and deeper look I took by reading many books on various subjects, the proverbial ‘luck’ is actually the energy we emit into the universe that circulates around and comes back bringing heaps of whatever we deserve. It’s a complex mixture of our beliefs, feelings, and deeds we do onto others.

• Do you think you can steal something and get away with it because nobody saw you? Not a chance in the universe made of energy. You might think you got away, but you will pay for it in another way and moan about your ‘bad luck’.

• Do you believe that ‘no good deed every goes unpunished?’. So be it… Since you believe it, there will always be something ‘bad’ happening to you after you do something ‘good’.

• Do you believe that you’re like a cat, that always lands on 4 feet? This too will prove right in your life over and over again.

• Do you feel your content is of very high quality and deserving of good votes? You get the drill by now. The ‘luck’ shall be on your side.

• Here is a kicker however… Are you feeling low and frustrated? The Universe will bring you more things to feel low and frustrated about, so you can moan some more about your bad luck.

See, apart from reading many books, listening to many webinars, and watching documentaries about quantum physics and how newly discovered laws prove that we live in an energetic universe where everything is connected by invisible web, I also watch myself on a daily basis.

Even at times when I pretend not to be watching, I still do. There is no day that goes by that the observer in me doesn’t make notes about my own behaviour and how it influences how I feel, how it makes people around me feel and behave and how the circumstances in my life reflect my beliefs and my feelings.

Even the days when I am sat on my kitchen chair, smoking, drinking coffee and playing mindless games the observer is watching. I recently realised that that time is never really wasted. It seems like my brain needs certain amount of workout every day and if I don’t direct it to something useful, the games are really second-best thing, cause while my brain is busy merging dragons or collecting stone for construction, my higher brain (or higher self) is… meditating. Then even higher brain is watching what the other two brains are doing.

Have you ever experienced such a thing? I’ve experienced 2 brain actions many times before, but 3rd one was new to me. Brain is just such a fascinating piece of hi-tec computer that it never really ceases to amaze me. Seeing that subconscious part of it is what really rules our lives and our ‘luck’, it really pays to study how it works.

Why am I saying all this?

I don’t know what your favourite way of learning is, but for me the dry facts never really worked well. Numbers, yes, but not facts. I like the facts mixed up with examples of how those facts can be illustrated in real life.

Hence why I want to use the last point of feeling low and frustrated as an illustration of how the ‘luck’ works. Mainly for my own sake, to remind myself over and over about how this universe really works. Because sometimes I tend to forget and often it takes me a long time to remember it again. If it can help anyone who reads it as well as me, then that's a nice bonus.

If you have followed me for a while, you would have known that I spent the bigger part of this still new year in misery. It’s like a chain effect. One disturbing thing happens which brings you down, your vibe drops, attracting more disturbing things to join the party and so on, until you are laying on your sofa, unable to motivate yourself to even move your little finger, cause life is so bad or ‘luck’ is not on your side.

My misery was only ever broken by a few hours of dancing each weekend. I really don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have this happy place to turn to.

In the midst of this misery, I was faced with another closure. A closure I didn’t want to happen, while I knew one day it had to and it was also needed at this point. Closures, while painful and sad are helpful in completing the grieving process. The part where we let go and detach from something that maybe wasn’t meant to be, no matter how beautiful it started. The part where we drop a few more tears that are left and decide it is time to finally move on.

I find this part very tricky, as my brain starts flashing me with all the amazing memories I experienced, and it doesn’t choose time or place to send me these flashes. I gave myself a permission to drop a tear or two whenever it happens. It doesn’t matter who’s watching. I also delegated time during the weekend to just sit, feel sad and cry. Because closures are sad. Also because sometimes we need to cry and feel those emotions that we’ve been trying to hide away from or burry for way too long. If not faced/felt these manifest in various illnesses of mind and body.

Once I cried enough, I suddenly remembered that there is work to do that nobody else will do for me. It was to pick myself up and remember who I am and the power I wield within me. That power once directed can move the mountains and create miracles all around me. I really don’t know how I keep forgetting that I have it. Every single one of us has it in fact.

For months I have directed this power into self-destruction. It doesn’t matter that the low vibe feelings I felt were justified and directed at someone else, because they are like fire which burns my hands before reaching the person, I throw the fire ball at. No wonder I felt exhausted all the time!

It’s so hard to see this though while you’re in the middle of self-pity party. People who know will look at you and see exactly what you’re doing to yourself, yet you, yourself are blind and feel like a victim of circumstances.

I really don’t know how many more times will I have to go through this to learn not to fall for the trap, but what else do I spend my life doing if not continuously learning and growing?

How did my ‘luck’ turn around?

It happened when I remembered that I create it myself. I have made a few significant decisions in the past week or so and proceeded with first tiny steps to set them in motion. The real difference was the mindset though.

After visiting Crystal up North at Easter and many insightful conversations we had, I decided to finally write an article about her beautiful place that I have been postponing since December! During my visit there we also discussed how the lack of closure didn’t let me complete the grieving process and it was uncanny how fast the closure arrived once we pinpointed it as source.

On Saturday, as I was writing my Saturday Savers report I decided it was time to wake up from the 2 month’s long slumber and start creating more content again. Keeping my #Actifit reports going was a no brainer, since they take not much of my time, but some are very nicely upvoted. I knew this was not enough though – I have to reach deeper inside and find the will and excitement to write more, because like @stdd said – I am really good at it.

Lo and behold – the big excitement came also at the weekend, when I found out that 2 of my posts were nominated for the Author of the week. As I said in my #threads then – no matter whether I win or not, just being noticed and appreciated by nomination was enough to bring a big smile to my face. Having 2 chances to win was even more exciting. I was happily sharing the links to the voting threads on threads and in my posts and then I let go and went to do what I do best – dance!

Now… would you believe that both nominated posts were about Crystal and the time I spent with her? Coincidences? Luck?

How about winning both? Cause that happened too! I couldn’t believe my ‘luck’ when this happened on Monday… But like one of my teachers said to me – after the release, there is always a prize.

There is more! I also won 1 BRO token in the 2nd Anniversary contest for the #ALIVE tribe as well as 500 STARBITS for my 'stolen' flower article after it was spotlighted and nominated in heartbeat of hive. One could think that I am one lucky girl, hey?

Now… after reading all this (if you managed till the end), do you seriously still believe in luck? Or are you swinging towards energy, and everything being connected by the invisible web of it? Let me know in the comments!

Until next time 💙