The copy is not exactly one of my favourites because I think we should let God do what he wants to do.. as the malayali aphorism goes, "neendatha madine ozhukku kondupokum"( "the current will wash away the buffalo that does not swim"! There is a great virtue in continuing to take efforts... everything continues in its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force and every action has an equal and opposite reaction!! Unless you bowl you don't get wickets!!There is another side to the story, which is that our efforts may not yield the results in the direction and quantum that we expect it to. There is always 'destiny' to contend with
I saw this lovely movie by Woody Allen called "Matchpoint". It is about choices one makes in one's life and how things turn out. The key being the role of chance/ luck and how we are loathe to admit it because we then acknowledge that we actually have no control over outcomes and that kills our egos and sense of achievement. Yet serendipity, like the force that decides whether a tennis ball that hits the tennis net at the top should fall on which side of the court, does shape our lives as destiny!in
"Cooler" is another movie and it won Alec Baldwin an Oscar I think. A 'Cooler' is a person in a casino who is sent to a table where things are getting "hot" because the guests are winning heavily. The 'cooler ' brings bad luck allegedly and the person next to him then starts to loose!!! Heard of "boori nazar' in our culture but this one was a surprise and given that it is the hard nosed and razor sharp Las Veags casino owners who use such tactics I believe it must be tried and tested!!!
As the malayali saying goes "vidhikanusaranam buddhi" "as is your fate, so will you think"
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