TIME and Luck

Very often we confuse between TIME and LUCK. People say someone had a bad time or good time. Time is a period. It can be measured, from milliseconds to light years. This can be quantified, but what was good or  bad in a given phase cannot be quantified. Anything that happens in a given time interval can happen due to various factors and one cannot hold time responsible for that. Time has objectivity and luck is subjective.  I have seen many times people mentioning, had they waited for another six months, they would have got a better spouse. Six months is quantified where as better spouse is very subjective.

A good or bad phase in one’s life for a specific number of days or years is generally expressed as good time or bad time and that’s where the confusion arises. If luck is good or bad in a given time frame, one tends to call it good time or bad time. Time is time, it’s same for all. It’s the luck that is different. Someone might be benefited in a given period whereas someone else may suffer. The time frame is same but events and results are subjective, and are relative, however these get tied to time. And this leads to confusion between time and luck. The line differentiating these two is very thin. Next time when you want to thank for something good that has happened, then thank your luck and if it’s something bad that you experienced, curse your luck.  Do not thank or curse the time.

Let me share a story with you. I call it a story because identity of the person involved in the story is not established. However the story drives home the point. Disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 is still a mystery. Some passenger with Twitter account named as Kaiden IV claimed that he and his companion Rory were booked on ill-fated flight. Due to personal reasons they were separately held up and couldn’t board the flight. He was angry and cursed the bad time for having missed the time, but his anger turned to relief upon learning he’d avoided what has become one of the biggest aviation mysteries in history. Kaiden made desperate attempts to contact his partner via Twitter, assuring her he was safe, and, most importantly, alive. What Kaiden thought was a bad time turned out to be a good time.

TIME is never good or bad, it’s your deeds, your luck that forces you to call the TIME good or bad.