When you ask someone if they considered themselves lucky, the ratio would be around 50-50 since many would either say yes or no. Is it the situation these people are in that contributed to the answers they give? Are they successful or has they hit rock bottom? However, very few people would consider themselves extremely lucky and that serendipity bought them success in life. One would have to consider what the denotation of lucky is to be able to answer this question. I can assure you, however, that I considered myself lucky through multiple of events throughout my life perhaps small percentage of people has experienced. The term lucky is defined as “having, bringing, or resulting from good luck” and the term luck is defined as “success or …show more content…
Instead, I should know how lucky I was to be alive. It was September 10, 3 days after our 1st birthday, our parents decided to bring the two of us girls down to a in order for our parents to have some free time from work in New York City, NY and to visit family members. On arrival, my parents said we were surrounded by our families and was getting so much love, we slept through it all. The next day, when our parents were having difficulty feeding us Gerbers from glass jars, my mom received a call on her flip phone. While trying to wipe the sweet potatoes flavor food (and mixed with my slobbers) off my chubby pink cheeks, mom flips open her phone. I don’t understand anything that was going on then since I was only 1 years old, but now I know. The phone call was from a friend of ours who wanted to check if we were okay. The World Trade Center has collapsed and if we have not left the day before, we might not have been alive today. Now I know it was luck that has saved us …show more content…
I have to try to be successful and hope luck hits me later; that is what I did in 1st grade. Watching Mrs. Gout, my first grade teacher, draw symmetrical gold coins and descriptive tigers, I stared down on my blank piece of paper. My hands moved as if it has a mind of its own, swirling and etching lines with striking similarity to Mrs. Gout’s own picture. Using every colors from the rainbow, I created a portraits Mrs. Gout could not get her eyes off of. Like a leprechaun who follows the rainbow to his pot of gold, I won myself a free ticket to IUPUI art summer camp. It was a lucky chance; only 2 students from my elementary schools get this free admission to art camp. And I was this lucky
Luck is an important role in a person’s success. Home life, financial situation, location, and other elements are all a part of someone’s luck. If a person originates from a supportive, wealthy family, chances are that the person will grow up to become very successful. On the other hand, someone born into a careless, destitute family, will most likely struggle to find the path to success. In
In his book “Outliers”, Malcolm Gladwell emphasizes a lot about luck by illustrating the importance of birthdays for Hockey players, by comparing the success of geniuses with super high intelligence, and by showing how successful people got opportunities and support because of their luck. At a glance, every reader can find out luck plays a crucial role in success, but does Gladwell wants us to believe luck is all that matters? Although he emphasizes a lot about luck in his book, I don’t think he believes that successful people are just lucky because every successful people he introduces in his book are not just lucky in their lives, but are great hard workers and risk takers.
...uild a quick fortune through luck rather than through hard work and motivation. Unfortunately this method does not usually work regardless of how persistent the gambler is. Mostly, people end up gambling themselves to bankruptcy. If relying solely on luck and ignoring perseverance, then gaining the American Dream will often become impossible.
I woke up Tuesday morning excited for the day I was going to spend with my mom. I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking fresh coffee listening to my mom and aunt tease and joke around about how paranoid my mom was about doing well in her classes, my aunt was telling her that maybe now that I was there, she would relax a little bit and have some fun. Our plan was to go to one of mom's classes with her, and then on a tour of UNC and then we were going to go to dinner and a movie.
To the casual eye of most, winning the lottery is an ongoing fantasy for many. To envision the idea that in a sudden moment you could be an instant millionaire, a risk that many are willing to take. Statistics have shown that the chances of someone winning is 1 in 175 million. Although, winning the lottery is not likely for those who do win are they really that much better off ("What Are Your Odds")? For most people it’s the possibility of winning big that has brought continual hope throughout the years for a better future (Smith, Jacque Wilson).
Often people believe that playing the lottery or other forms of gambling will make you rich. This is not a good idea. You have a very unlikely chance of winning enough to make you rich. Statics say that you have a 1 and 175 million chance of winning the lottery. You may believe that it is your lucky day and you’re going to take a chance, but is the chance worth the amount you pay to try to win.
The chances of winning the Powerball lottery are 1 in 175.2 million, which means that you are more likely to die from a bee sting or get struck by lightning. Although the chances of winning are slim to none, it is still possible. But is winning the lottery beneficial? Since winning the lottery does not make winners physically happier, puts winners in financial ruin, and destroys important relationships, winning the lottery is not beneficial. When you think of accumulating millions of dollars in a small amount of time, happiness probably comes to mind.
Success takes many different definitions. People have different interpretations of what success really means. For me is as simple as: living well and laughing often. The idea of living well is a very broad statement. Living well, in my opinion is getting success in personal, social and professional life. If I can achieve all of these three levels of success, I believe that I have lived well.
Imagine a painting of your life, what colors would be there? How would you show the different times in your life? Would you shade the areas where you had a hard time or use lines to show that? Being a artist that never truly finishes their work would be hard. When you are young, your enthused about painting. As you start to get older, all you want to do is visit with friends, so you miss that part of your life. Then you get back on track and work like crazy to make up wasted time. But you think to yourself “Will I ever finish my masterpiece or will it end when I do?”
Overall, people reach success thanks to hard work and luck is not important for success because of luck being temporal, psychological and social causes. In spite of the luck supporters, hard work has always been the reason of success because luck disappointed its supporters by leaving them alone with vexing problems. Furthermore, laziness, one of the most significant quality of human nature and the most common reason why people support luck, should have been addressed. As a consequence of the rebellion against luck, people changed their mind and eventually, understood that relying on luck is a wrong decision and hard work is the authentic key of success.
The school ended up opening up an after school program for students who were interested in art. Expressing creativity is one of the most productive leisure activity because one is being in touch with their feelings. Creative work also help to open your mind more and makes you go out of the box and creating an outcome that gives expression to insight (Cordes, 2013, pg. 4). Going out of the box and building something out of your imagination can help in the long run when you need to implement creativity as an adult. I ended up joining the after school program and I would spend most time there drawing and creating stencils. At that time I was also experimenting my sexuality so I kissed a couple of girls during that year and I ended up being really attracted to girls. In the art class I attended after school I started working on a stencil of a girl with a mini skirt bending over with her thong showing and the caption said “Peek-A-Boo.” Part of me was still a rebellious teen that wanted to put my art all over the school to upset the principal. When I started working on the small details of the piece I got really creative with the technique. I spent most of my time working on my art and I was really proud of that work. The principal and my parents were upset with my work but I wasn’t. In that moment is where I learned how to do
...oughout the people I interviewed. They felt happy and success because they lived up to their version of success while being happy. Success and happiness are two different feelings. One decides whether they want to live happy and successful or be successful to be happy.
Having the ability to shape a student’s life is truly a gift; so many of my art teachers inspired me to follow my dreams. After hearing Taylor Mali’s poem, What Teachers Make, I knew that I wanted to be a teacher: I want to make a difference. Mali spoke with so much passion as he answered the age old question ‘what do teachers make.’ “I make parents see their children for who they are and who they can be,” this quote really moved me because I think in a lot of situations students’ talents are overlooked by their parents (Mali.) My art teachers always had their hand in the community creating sculptures for the local fire department or crocheting hats and baby booties. I feel good teaching shows students how to apply the knowledge they learned. I want to model what they learned so they can apply it to their everyday life. I attend to teach my students to be active members of society and be aware and respectful of others’ culture, and teach them how to apply the skills they learn in art in their everyday life.
It was just an ordinary day. The sun had just set and we were all sitting around the table eating dinner. My mother and father always asked us about our future and what we were hoping to accomplish. My brother and sister always explained how they wanted to go into the air force and be doctor. Of course I would just sit there and think about how I didn’t know what I wanted to be. But this particular night I had an idea of what I wanted to do! So before my mom and dad could get out of their mouth the question, I said “I know what I want to be!”. They all stared and asked what that might be and I replied, “A famous artist!” I said, “I want my paintings and sketchings to be shown worldwide!”. They told me that, that was all good and well but that there was a lot of steps to achieve this goal and that it wasn’t very realistic. But what they didn’t know was that very line pushed me to prove them wrong.