So here I sit, at the dawn of another year, full of potential.
I use to have this saying at work. Towards the end of the day, you get off work and go home. You say you byes and see you laters. I always held the optimistic attitude that tomorrow is another day full of potential. I don't know when I starting using that phrase. But it stuck for a while.
Even now, I like to take that optimistic approach on things. Maybe it's partially a way to justify the failures of this day, this year.
I was reading the beginning of The Great Gatsby recently. The narrator talks about this character named Tom. Go read it if you really care, but basically Tom is the kind of guy that has accomplish so much at a young age. So much so, that everything he will do in life thereafter is going to pale in comparison to what he has achieved.
To me, this is the silver lining to the fact that life is about luck. The more and more I work in this industry, the more and more I realize that a lot of that so called success is luck. Some people are just at the right place at the right time, regardless of aptitude. Not to take anything away from that, but that is just how I see it.
So back to my silver lining. If I were one of those fortunate enough to experience the luck of the few, I think I would be hard pressed to live out the rest of my life. How do you go from making an effect on the world back to mediocrity? Right, so some people will continue to change the landscape as long as they can, but those are even fewer.
So a couple days ago I went with Moon to moca, the Los Angeles version of moma. Actually, we only went to one part. Apparently there are three. But I digress. As much as I will always have a soft spot for San Francisco, I have to say one some days Los Angeles isn't all that bad. Maybe only because it was overcast and cold that day, so it actually felt a lot like San Francisco.
Afterwards, we went to this random cafe. Reminds me of the other random cafe in San Francisco. No joke.
I have something about poker I want to talk about. But I think that this is enough for now.
4 comments:
ooh poker question, please ask..
john
It wasn't really a poker question. Just a reflection about an article I read in The Economist. Basically it goes in line with my previous rambling about life being about luck. At the end of the day, you have to make the best out of your lucky days. A lot like poker. No wonder they call it the game of life.
i like this post. i don't necessarily disagree with you, but i think that your reliance on luck in our lives really takes away some faith from what God has planned for us. Relying on Him to lead us shouldn't require us to be lucky to have an impact on our environment.
sorry we missed you in LA. I hope you're feeling better!
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