isn't gentleman leave your gamble untied
you don't yes you're lucky but prudence
demands that you die your camera's first
and then go about your business let me
share with you my brush with luck or the
lack of it Model United Nations
popularly known as M UN's
are simulations of United Nations
conferences involving schoolchildren and
require a lot of researching and
debating skills I love being part of
these conferences not very much to look
at them I feel I am terrible but
watching experienced mu honors pH each
other's throats to prove that their
countries the right just makes my day if
you've been to an M UN you know what I'm
talking about
I've navigated through M UN's a few
times worked hard all the time but luck
has eluded me more often than not I've
been to for immunes in my life and for
some reason my immune lock is just the
worst
to prove that my country's refugee
policies were human I've got an
Australia that sends its refugees to
detention centres and I've gotten Saudi
Arabia on the topic of capital
punishment and judicial administration
yes I almost cried during both this time
when my school organized its second mu n
I decided to go for a committee in which
I wouldn't have to defend the
indefensible for country I decided to
choose international press cops rather
than a committee with the country I was
a lot of my news agency in early April
which was coincidentally the beginning
my new school year I was going to high
school grade 9 one thing you have to do
before an actual M UN conference is to
submit a position paper which is the
summary of your country stand on the
given topic usually my grandfather was
basically good at everything and has
considerable political knowledge helps
me by giving me valuable aids this time
I was clueless as to how to write the
stance of a newspaper agency on the
topic and decided not to bother my
knowledgeable guide as well so I started
to research about my news agency while I
was getting used to grade 9 which made
it hard to focus on anything else since
it was high school so
kept procrastinating but do not judge me
I am a really hard worker I research
days and nights for a muuns and start
fighting my position papers well in
advance before the submission date this
time I didn't feel working hard wasn't
going in my favour or so I thought okay
so a day before my position paper
deadline I did not have one so I start
here right my position paper that I
obviously couldn't finish in time
then message from heaven came well it
wasn't heaven it was my chest saying
that the deadline had been postponed and
extended by two days her lady lab
finally decided to smile I burnt
midnight oil and finished my position
paper four hours before the deadline
I knew this position paper wasn't my
best but I was proud that I had written
it on my own without anyone's help and
managed to finish report before the
deadline well the second one I luckily
ended up winning the award for the best
position paper I wasn't shocked at all
not because I was expecting the award
but because someone had given me the
spoiler but that isn't the point the
point is that luck is a factor too I
have heard many many people say that you
create your own LOC you control your own
lock or that it doesn't matter but it
does it is the uncontrollable and indeed
intangible factor of success we seem to
ignore the fact that sometimes people
really do work hard and still are not
successful it is not because they didn't
try hard enough maybe it wasn't in the
rock now we the part about the unspoken
part of success remains unspoken the
intangible factor is unspoken about no
one talks about it thus topic is
relevant more so because in this current
era of high stress and competition when
nobody can accept failure people resort
extreme steps such as suicide once they
face rejection if only they knew not
every outcome is in their control this
sure is an uncontrollable factor in life
the sooner we accept it the easier it
will be it is rightly said by James
clear
youth success is luck relative success
is what this means is that your hard
work will take you places will give you
success hard work is something that you
can control but luck is something that
you cannot you may not always be lucky
but you can always work hard if you work
hard and have luck
success is guaranteed if you work hard
but don't have a lot of luck success is
possible but if you just sit around
waiting for success the success to come
at your doorstep even luck may desert
you let me make this clear this is not a
discussion about whether we should just
sit back relax and wait for luck or be
devastated after we didn't get the
results we deserved no I am not in any
way saying that hard work is dispensable
what I'm trying to say is that one
should not be sad about losing or
failing when one knows one has worked
hard so on the other hand you may get
all the lucky breaks in the world but
unless you take action they're pretty
useless so try your best and leave it to
the factors beyond your control with a
smile just like the news even captain
Kain Williamson did in the recently
health wicked World Cup both England and
New Zealand equally deserved to bag the
gold but it was sheer luck they'd been
in England's direction their hard work
not put standing now if you still don't
believe in the power of luck here is the
headless chicken my the headless chicken
lived for 18 months after its head and
bit chopped off and I'm not making this
up this is the real picture now you make
ready this is some biology miracle or
the hard work of the person who did this
or maybe some amazing technique but you
will have to agree every chicken that
you behead doesn't become the headless
living chicken this was by fluke if you
weren't unsuccessful that doesn't mean
you weren't prepared enough you weren't
committed enough or that you did not
deserve it
chance favors the prepared mind hard
work has its place you should not dwell
on things that you can control but again
don't bail on hard work alone you may
not get the results you deserve so good
luck all the best may the odds be ever
in your favor
have you heard this before what do you
think your loved months mean by this
when they wish you before you
embark on an important challenge now
what difference would this make no this
this wouldn't make a difference in your
preparation but it would make a
difference and that difference is huge
it is the difference between the
congratulations and a very well tried
thank you