Luck and success

At some point of your life you may have wondered: "­what does it take to be successful? ". You may also have thought that if luck were on your side you would already be successful. But, is it true that luck results in success?

In order to answer this, we must first consider what success is. We might be tempted to think of luck as a synonym of wealth. However, the actual definition, "when you achieve what you want to achieve" (Longman dictionary), allows us to see that success may differ from one to another because we all have different goals. Nevertheless, there are certain things; such as being respected, and not being in misery etc.; we all want, or at least most of us do.

Now, let us take a look at the things that may lead to success. We will get two answers right away: luck and hard work. We will consider luck to be the help the world gives us, and hard work to be the help you give to yourself, that is, your own effort. Both are important, but one is more important than the other, and that is hard work.

You may be thinking that there are things luck can get for you and hard work cannot, for instance, winning the lottery. However, is someone who wins the lottery really successful? What has he or she achieved? In the best case he will temporary be out of misery. The world gave him a hand but not success. If he or she doesn't do something he just had an illusion of true success.

How about people who's born rich, and respected? As we said before, money is not the same as success. Subsequntly, success is a consequence of achieving. What has a newborn achieved? A newborn has not even set goals to try. Therefore, you cannot be born succesful.

On the other hand, there are people who work hard all their lives and they do not become succesful. Why does that happen? Probably, what happens is that they miss some opportunities. And that,s one of the things that never comes back, a missed opportunity. it is like they say "luck is what happens when oportunity an preparation meet". In that way, true luck is the outcome of a prepared mind, which is the result of hard work, and a mind aware of opportunities, which is constant hard work. Thus, luck is actually the result of hard work.

As we have seen, true success can only be achieved through hard work. Everything else is just an illusion.