Nobody’s Son

Of all the fools in the world, the ones hiding behind self-awareness may be the worst. You can know yourself, or think you do, and be none the wiser, analyze your predicament to the nth degree and be no closer to escaping it. Melville had put it beautifully: “For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the cause of that peril; —nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”

Slouka, Mark. Nobody’s Son. New York: Norton, 2016.

Day two: Destiny/fate/luck

True or false: luck is the biggest factor in one’s fate.

MB: Karma is a bigger factor because you have to do things for good or bad things to happen to you.

TC: I don’t believe luck has anything to do with fate. I believe that luck is something people make up in order to feel better. Or like a crutch of some sort.

SH: Luck comes when it’s most needed or it comes when it just happens. Or life can cut you a break and throw it at you sometimes.

DD: I feel like finding things, getting money, etc., isn’t luck. It’s life.

AM: This is true because every one that is successful says that they got lucky.

KM: “No, I’m not lucky. I’m blessed.” ~Nicki Minaj

AH: Luck can’t matter when you work hard and do everything you need to ensure you’ll be successful.

IP: True because you could be lucky enough to have been born into a rich/famous family and because of that your life could be all downhill, but you could also have been born homeless and no one would ever hear your voice or know your name.