Fuck Luck

AHH! We've been fooled! Blinded by our own ambitions and drive it's easy to miss what is really going on here.

We are all apart of some weird universe sponsored lottery. The winners drive Porsches, fuck models, and do hard drugs without any sort of ramifications. While the losers circle crowns it's champions in the world's premiere ghettos and 3rd rate countries. They get their pick of whatever the winner's leave in their dumpsters, fuck gingers and lose their soul's trying to figure out where they went wrong.

Well... where the hell did we go wrong? Maybe you didn't...

Lo and behold the survivorship bias!

Basically, you only hear from the survivors, for they're the only ones around to tell their stories. You win the war, you write the history books.

The winners tell tales of struggle and hardship, talking about their determination while shedding a tear for the hard times and their struggle, but hey that sounds sort of familiar with what you are going through. There is sort of a comfort knowing that "hey this bastard made it big, and look his life sucked worse than mine at whatever given point in his life he is referring to". So just keep up all your hard work and you'll pull through, and maybe tomorrow you won't be in debt up to your eyeballs/have an ugly wife/it'll rain happiness, right?


The problem with that thought process is that the millions of others that didn't make it past that low point aren't making guest appearances on Oprah. So, we have this skewed view of how much determination and success pays off, and thus people continue to try and beat the disgustingly small odds of life, because people like Justin Bieber, don't deserve his $15,000 watch and his $3,000 shoes.

I am not condoning hard work and determination, but the message I am trying to get off is that you have to understand sometimes it is not your fault that you failed. You can do everything right and still finish in the middle of the pack. You just got the short end of the stick covered in poop and grass, while Justin Bieber got the one covered in dance lessons from Usher, and princess cut diamonds.

My favorite quote is shoot for the moon, and if you miss you'll still end up among the stars .. If you really think about it, you'll realize how incredibly lame that quasi inspiration quote is.

The catch 22 about this whole life thing is that life is basically holding a metaphorical gun to your head and making you spin the roulette wheel, and that gun is loaded with hunger, debt, and government welfare programs. You can't just stand there and give up, you have to play the lottery, so might as well give it your best shot. But hard work only tilts the odds in your favor to a slight degree. It's like playing roulette but taking out those annoying double zeros. You'll break even at worst, but hey maybe you'll hit a couple times, win big, and you'll get that supercharded sports car afterall.

Best of luck?...