Post by moazaya on Jan 11, 2022 1:23:42 GMT -5
"Hard luck"The shot which seemed so certainly a goal just hits the post. The truth is of course that it is the player who has miscalculated the forces he has to deal with. His shot was not quite sure enough, his aim was not quite straight, it is a case not of bad luck but of bad play. It is the same with most of us when we play the game of life. It is always easier to project our failures on to some mysterious external agency we call luck, than to take the blame ourselves. For example, some of us marry a most unsuitable partner, and the strange thing is that when freed by divorce or death, they are just "unlucky" in their second choice. Some say that those unlucky people are born under an unlucky star. Shakespeare (who don't know him) says «The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves».
To sum up, it was not a rich man who gave us light by night. It was not a lucky man who gave us steam and the power to ride around the world. They were not fortunate people who set us on the way to conquer the majority of diseases and make the world worth living in. The foundation stones of the modern world have been built by the brain-power of hard-working men who never depended on luck or fate.
