An overview of opinions and observations for the month.
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Content Consumption 2013
2013 has been a lot easier compared to 2012, it hasn't been all smooth sailing, but it's definitely been calmer waters to navigate. Big events this year focus mainly on my daughter; I didn't get to see my little girl whatsoever for the first 4 and a half months of 2013 whilst I still was battling through Court with my ex. In May, I was awarded supervised contact centre access which was a massive victory back at the time, and then in August I finally won my Court case and finally got to have my little Princess unsupervised and back home with me with my family finally getting to meet her for the first time. After winning Court, I applied to have my name added to Ilysha's birth certificate since my ex had omitted it originally; this was finally concluded at the start of December, at which point I had achieved what I vowed to do at the outset.
In 2013, I got to see my daughters first teeth, first steps, hear her first words, and see her grow crazy fast in a short period of time. I am really looking forward to witnessing her develop even further in 2014! The winning of Court closed a very difficult chapter of my life, something that I am happy to leave to the memories of 2013. I took advantage of this year to finalise getting all aspects of my personal life in check and under control - I completely avoided drugs and relationships for the entirety and have seen the positive effect it's had on my outlook, perspective and positivity. I think 2014 is the year for me to really start focusing on a career and future, setting some long term goals and working towards bettering myself further.
I sincerely hope all of you wake up to the world around you this year, I see some of you stuck in routines that don't benefit you at all, or settling for less than you deserve in relationships, or treading water in jobs far below what you are capable of achieving. I really hope you see there is much more to life than you're currently experiencing, and shrug off the complacency you've adopted. There is only one thing stopping you succeeding in 2014, and that is the same thing that holds you back any other time; yourself. So smash that glass ceiling, push those boundaries, crush those obstacles, and stop letting self imposed dramas dictate your life. If you only do one thing in 2014, I hope that one thing is being happy. I love you, and I want nothing but the best for you. I hope this New Year is our best one yet xo
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Luck
Of late, my train of thought is hurriedly moving between topical platforms, restless and relentlessly. I was lay in bed, listening to the calming sound of raindrops echoing against the window pane, when without prompt my mind began to explore and moved along to the thought of rain protection, of raincovers (perhaps because I need to buy a new one tomorrow), umbrellas, and the like. Natural thought progression led me to thinking about opening umbrellas indoors, and the illusion of the resulting “bad luck”. So, I then got to thinking, what exactly is luck?
Luck is a word ascribed to an event, or series of events, that one did not expect or perceive likely under the current circumstances or environmental conditions. We use the word luck to explain things we believe ourselves to have no control over; when often the decisions we have made prior to the event(s) are the factors that contribute to the outcome. Such is the law of cause and effect.
Cause and effect is one of the most basic laws of physics; every action has a reaction. The decisions you make, the choices, the actions, the thoughts are all causes, whereas the concluding outcome is the effect. Luck is often attributed to situations whereby the cause and effect of other people, directly impacts our own experiences. Luck is a baseless notion; I believe the world is merely a canvas upon which we paint our lives, and our actions and artwork directly and indirectly affect everybody else’s, such is cause and effect.
I feel the word luck has only one proper application, and one definition, and that is to describe the situation when somebody else’s cause and effect holds direct influence over outcomes relative to ourselves. It is not “luck” for a certain outcome to transpire, it is the culmination of the effects of every bodies universal collective causes.
The Gambler’s Fallacy is a noteworthy ideology based around this theory; it is the erroneous belief that frequency is relative to duration, in accordance with probability. To demonstrate the aforementioned theory imagine a situation involving coin tossing where there is a 50/50 chance the coin will land heads up. The Gambler’s Fallacy centres on the idea that if a coin lands heads up three times in a row, the odds are in favour of tails on the fourth toss, merely due to nature’s need to balance itself in harmonious equilibrium. Of course this is retarded logic, given that we already know the odds are equally 50/50.
Something as simple as coin tossing will often be used as an indicator that luck is an existing principle - however luck has no bearing on the coin toss, the outcome is predetermined by physics, factors such as position, rotation, velocity, and angular momentum. Again, this is cause and effect; the cause is the manner in which the coin is tossed and the relative variables, whereas the effect is the resulting outcome.
"Whatever luck I had, I made." - Chuck Norris
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Luck is a word ascribed to an event, or series of events, that one did not expect or perceive likely under the current circumstances or environmental conditions. We use the word luck to explain things we believe ourselves to have no control over; when often the decisions we have made prior to the event(s) are the factors that contribute to the outcome. Such is the law of cause and effect.
Cause and effect is one of the most basic laws of physics; every action has a reaction. The decisions you make, the choices, the actions, the thoughts are all causes, whereas the concluding outcome is the effect. Luck is often attributed to situations whereby the cause and effect of other people, directly impacts our own experiences. Luck is a baseless notion; I believe the world is merely a canvas upon which we paint our lives, and our actions and artwork directly and indirectly affect everybody else’s, such is cause and effect.
I feel the word luck has only one proper application, and one definition, and that is to describe the situation when somebody else’s cause and effect holds direct influence over outcomes relative to ourselves. It is not “luck” for a certain outcome to transpire, it is the culmination of the effects of every bodies universal collective causes.
The Gambler’s Fallacy is a noteworthy ideology based around this theory; it is the erroneous belief that frequency is relative to duration, in accordance with probability. To demonstrate the aforementioned theory imagine a situation involving coin tossing where there is a 50/50 chance the coin will land heads up. The Gambler’s Fallacy centres on the idea that if a coin lands heads up three times in a row, the odds are in favour of tails on the fourth toss, merely due to nature’s need to balance itself in harmonious equilibrium. Of course this is retarded logic, given that we already know the odds are equally 50/50.
Something as simple as coin tossing will often be used as an indicator that luck is an existing principle - however luck has no bearing on the coin toss, the outcome is predetermined by physics, factors such as position, rotation, velocity, and angular momentum. Again, this is cause and effect; the cause is the manner in which the coin is tossed and the relative variables, whereas the effect is the resulting outcome.
"Whatever luck I had, I made." - Chuck Norris
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