Lucky People

© 2020 Sterling James

As the years go by, destiny calls out to me.
Sometimes I think about the lost opportunities in my lifetime and the wasted years; then I think how precious those years were and how happy I was just the way they were.
Anything is possible if you believe.
In college and professional sports, the worst team can beat the best team on any given day.
I am talking about people who seem to have it all.
A note about lucky people these people are people whose timing wins all the time it seems. The reason why is they always gamble when their cycles are in the positive they can sense it. But believe me, the ups and downs in their lives are still in place; they still have their off days. My mother had a friend she called the luckiest person she ever met. One time this friend won two $5,000 jackpots in one night playing the slot machines. When this lady got elderly, I ran errands for her, and we got close. All she wanted to do was die; her health had failed that much, but life wouldn’t let her go. After what seemed like a long time, she finally got her wish and died. So you see, luck comes and goes to everybody.
Luck and skill are working together in life to create beauty.
Carl Hubbell, the baseball Hall of Famer who’s crowning achievement took place in 1934 All-Star game. In this All-Star game, he struck out five future halls of famers in a row. They were Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig Jimmie Foxx Al Simmons and Joe Cronin. It just goes to show you that with good skills and luck anything can be accomplished. Another person with great skills is a former Jeopardy game show player Ken Jennings. His streak started in June 2004 ended in November the same year, winning over 2 million American dollars. This win streak of 74 games was interrupted by the shows summer break in July and also by special Jeopardy events. It helps explain why this streak lasted so long an interval when it comes to winning and losing was operating just like yours. So you can understand the skill the man possessed to win so many games and the luck that went with it making his timing close to perfect.
Let us look at things that concern us and concern people of all ages.
So we now that everything has its ups and downs even those good things that benefit society has it’s up and downs. The light bulb, for instance, everyone would agree with its benefits to society. Yet because of the electric light bulb, many people are going against their wake sleep-cycles when they work night shift hours, which has been proved to be bad for your health in the long run, yet society still rewards working these hours. So even this electric phenomenon has its positives and negatives to it. So the poor must contribute to society in some way if they have their ups and downs as well. Let’s see the poor contribution to society would be that they use very little of Earth’s natural resources. Therefore they pollute very little as well. The question I beg to ask, do we reward everyone for their contribution to society?
Cycles of other biological entities.
Work by others, as told by Erica Klarreich in a Science Digest article dated February 12th, 2005, talks about the life spans of small animals versus large animals. It states that small animals have short lifespans, while bigger ones have longer lives. The reason for this has to do with the metabolic rate or how fast cells burn energy. As you might have guessed, small animals have higher metabolic rates than bigger animals. The metabolic rate theory works out well for small animals versus large animals where body size and temperature play an important role. If we take a mouse and an elephant, the elephant outlives the mouse by a lot of years, but yet the mouse could experience the same amount of heartbeats and the same amount of breaths as an elephant. All small versus large animals work this way. So what does that have to do with cycles well? It seems that the faster an animal’s metabolic rate is, the faster the animal experiences life’s ups and downs.