BLACKJACK!

Luck.

You know those nights when you just feel like you can do no wrong; when you wake up and the world decides it owes you a favor, or 21?

A couple compadres and I encountered this last night on a small endeavor to Tunica, MS. We did everything from rob the casinos, to drive away laughing at the cops while they had their guns blazing. We were invincible. At one point, Dr. Jones even made the comment, "Yep, I'm going to the moon tonight."

Okay, so the story didn't go exactly like that. We may or may not have just all three won money playing blackjack at the casinos, and I may or may not have really really deserved to get a $200 ticket and got away with a mere warning citation (I still haven't figured out how/why he let me slide). However, Dr. Jones did actually make that comment after I didn't get a ticket. There may have also been a little luck involved. Or was there?

Luck has taken on a funny place in today's society. Your hardcore realists say that there's no such thing as luck. Hard work and determination make luck (these people have never met Matthew Hall). Then, you have your superstitious individuals that will do some of the craziest things humanly possible if they think they can change their luck. Finally, there are people like me. I try to keep things as real as possible, but sometimes things just happen that you can't explain. There's not really anything else to call it, but luck.

Where does luck come from though?

How do people get lucky?

Why do people get lucky?

Is the simple answer to these questions that some people simply set themselves up to get lucky? That either through pure methodology or through an unconscious intuition, some people just repeatedly set themselves up to win? Or is there a deeper, much more complex answer? Do we actually have a complex flow of positive and negative energy flowing throughout the world and the universe that just hasn't been detected yet, and some people just attract more of the positive energy than others?

I'm not really sure I buy into either of the theories I just presented, but I do think the higher power plays some kind of role in people's luck. How much and how little, I'm not sure, but there has to be some explanation unbeknownst to us.

Some times you just have to feel it.

Good luck to everyone.

                        <>< C. T. Gunn