A lot of people will say they have something to regret yet to regret is rarely thought about. An example, A young male aged 19, messing around trips over lands in the road and gets hit by a car. The young male is likely to regret messing around by the side of the road. Whether or not it is unlucky such action happened will be brought up later. Let’s continue the example and give the young male a name the young name is James, he wants to be a football player and is quite good. The day of the accident he was on his way practice. James never made it to practice because he was recovering in hospital. James found out he had damaged his leg and may not be able to play football as good as he did ever again. James was heart broken by this news knowing that because that one action his life had changed. Now James regrets that action because of his actions the outcome was tragic. Is it okay for him to regret that? The answer of yes is probable because he is still in hospital and the actions seem to be bad.
Now back to the example. James is now 25, and James is married and has a child on the way and a good job as a sales man. Does James still regret being stupid and tripping over into the road? The answer is again most likely yes. James believes he would have been a footballer if he had not had that accident. Let’s look a little more into James live, James is married to a girl called Joanna she is a 24 year old nurse and is currently having James’s child. Now for the point of this story, James met Joanna at hospital. The action of messing around by the road and changing his life does seem bad but yet he met the love of his life is happy and has no real damage from it. Does he still regret it?
I am sorry this story is not the best example but I feel the point is still viewable. To regret you are also regretting all actions that happened since the event you regretted. I regret a lot of single actions but I honestly feel that I have learned from most of the mistakes. Of course I would have preferred them to have no happened but the idea is you should learn to accept your decisions because you are living the result of them.
So where does luck come into this? Well was the action of being hit by the car unlucky or lucky? Would James have been a footballer or was he just going to fail like so many others at their dreams? For this we need to look at whether or not a group of actions on a whole can be classed as one stem of luck or a stem of bad luck. James was being stupid (his own actions may not be to do with luck), He tripped (bad luck?), he got hit by a car (bad luck?), he broke his leg and was unable to play football (bad luck?), he met the love of his life Joanna (good luck?), he managed to get his life back and get a good job (good luck?), he is now having a child with Joanna (good luck?). There is a lot of bad luck followed by good luck.
Does good luck and bad luck come in patterns or does it come in stems. The idea of a luck stem is something I thought about the other day. An action that one would consider bad luck may not be bad luck but part of good luck. Is there one set path, is there lots of paths and we decide our own path, or is there lots of paths that once finished new paths can begin. Even more likely do lots of paths happen at the same time? Can one path interact with another or is one stem of luck limited at one given time? To regret something are we regretting the stem of luck was choose?
Now back to the example. James is now 25, and James is married and has a child on the way and a good job as a sales man. Does James still regret being stupid and tripping over into the road? The answer is again most likely yes. James believes he would have been a footballer if he had not had that accident. Let’s look a little more into James live, James is married to a girl called Joanna she is a 24 year old nurse and is currently having James’s child. Now for the point of this story, James met Joanna at hospital. The action of messing around by the road and changing his life does seem bad but yet he met the love of his life is happy and has no real damage from it. Does he still regret it?
I am sorry this story is not the best example but I feel the point is still viewable. To regret you are also regretting all actions that happened since the event you regretted. I regret a lot of single actions but I honestly feel that I have learned from most of the mistakes. Of course I would have preferred them to have no happened but the idea is you should learn to accept your decisions because you are living the result of them.
So where does luck come into this? Well was the action of being hit by the car unlucky or lucky? Would James have been a footballer or was he just going to fail like so many others at their dreams? For this we need to look at whether or not a group of actions on a whole can be classed as one stem of luck or a stem of bad luck. James was being stupid (his own actions may not be to do with luck), He tripped (bad luck?), he got hit by a car (bad luck?), he broke his leg and was unable to play football (bad luck?), he met the love of his life Joanna (good luck?), he managed to get his life back and get a good job (good luck?), he is now having a child with Joanna (good luck?). There is a lot of bad luck followed by good luck.
Does good luck and bad luck come in patterns or does it come in stems. The idea of a luck stem is something I thought about the other day. An action that one would consider bad luck may not be bad luck but part of good luck. Is there one set path, is there lots of paths and we decide our own path, or is there lots of paths that once finished new paths can begin. Even more likely do lots of paths happen at the same time? Can one path interact with another or is one stem of luck limited at one given time? To regret something are we regretting the stem of luck was choose?
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