On luck

 

We don’t attribute much to luck in our life or to serendipity? One can read the beautiful article below by Ravi Venkatesan for a philosophical take. 

The first thing which he writes and I agree - Is to show up ? One such experience from Goa

With monsoon being in full swing, stepping out was a function of lower drizzle or a heavy downpour or no rain. Imagine cooped up on a holiday, who would want that. We had to take chances…

Walk to the beach & World’s best cocktail bar (Tesouru by FireFly)

On our penultimate day at Goa, we had to make a choice between the above 2, both were 15 mins walk. The left to the beach & right to the best cocktail bar. Leaving Goa without the beach almost rounded unethical - hence we took the left fork and landed up on a near empty beach carrying umbrellas & found a glimmer of sun and strolled the beach to our heart’s content - soon it started raining. We took refuge in the most visited shack John C’s and had beer & chili Paneer for the 3rd time. 

Like all our human brains - cocktails were still niggling on our brains, how to go to Firefly Cabs were not there and as we were ambling in a low mood towards a nearby food joint, the wife flagged a passing car which looked like a cab (i think it was more the driver looks) we requested if he could drop us at the Firefly. He looked at us hungry souls and agreed. We showed him that the app was asking for 180 & he agreed….So luck prevailed & we could do both Beach & Best Cocktails.

Our life is strewn with such incidents which we don’t pay attention to, it’s always I did this. Many people who succeeded were in the right place in the right time ….So start Walking, Start showing up, Don’t hold back, don’t keep thinking and evaluating (that’s me)

Read the beautiful article to get a fresh outlook

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/mindset-matters/whats-luck-got-to-do-with-it/ 

Day 28: 200 words/day challenge (349 words)