Fortunate, son. Fortune, cookie.
Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 03:36AM The words Fortunate and Fortune interest me. Being Fortunate means you have luck, opportunity and good timing on your side. Having a Fortune means you have loads of money, or some other sort of wealth, which just means lots of money anyway, so that's why I said that first.
I like to think I'm a very fortunate person. Sometimes I'm lucky; sometimes I get really great opportunities; and every once in a while, my timing is not too bad. I can attribute most of the good luck and great opportunities to the environment I was brought up in. Now that I'm a grown-up (yikes!), what I choose to do with those fortunate gifts is up to me. That's an empowering thought. I have control over what happens to me.
So do you. You have control over what you do. Control over what happens to you, and your life, and your luck (good or bad), and over your opportunities.
So, if we have control over what we do with our lives, and what we make of our fortuitousness, what's our goal? What motivates us? Doing the right thing? Being a good person? Hopefully. What else? Wealth? The promise of that fortune? Probably quite often. But, does the possibility of a good payday lead us to suppose that once we have a fortune we'll be able to attain happiness AND satisfaction from our choices? A type of happiness and life-satisfaction we couldn't achieve without wealth. Is the fortune a means to and end; that end being a good life, filled with better luck, better opportunities and even better timing? Do we learn anything from the fortune itself? Or, could we stand to learn more from the hard work we put into gaining that fortune, satisfied with the knowledge that we chose to go for it? What if there's no fortune waiting at the end of it all? We worked hard, enjoyed every minute of the journey, learned a hell of a lot about ourselves, and other people, and that was the only reward. Could we remain positive and dedicated to our goal? Is positivity as valuable a product of good fortune as wealth is?
I feel like positivity breeds positive outcomes, negativity just breeds more negativity. Don't do it for the money, do it for the experience, and for the fun, and for the love. Love what you do. If you don't love it, stop doing it. Find what makes you really happy, and what challenges you to be better than what you thought you were capable of. Spend time making yourself, and others, happy, and spend time enjoying it too.
On another note, if you have a burning desire to name and date your old G.I. Joe figures from the 80s, like i did, I found a really rad website dedicated to just such a task. Enjoy!
Peace.
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