I was in Bulgaria, Trigrad the weekend before the last one (the 7th and 8th of June) and I took this photo at the entrance of the Haramiyska Cave.
Now you can say it’s nothing spectacular, some green thing, some plant growing on the rock, it happens all the time. Well, yes, actually I think more like in the cracks in the rock.

I had several conversations with people, what with all this change, most of them wishing me luck, and a lot of them expressing that “they think I will find my luck, as I am usually lucky, and all”.
Now, I will not deny it, I am a lucky person. Certainly.

But I think at least part of my luck comes from the fact that I don’t just wait to be lucky. I mean not all the time, I sure have my periods when I depend on luck.
I was told that I am lucky for having the opportunity for everything, that things just happen to come my way, not like for the other, not so lucky people.
I always tell them one curious fact about my life:

In 1995, after getting my paper where they kindly invited me to join the army for a brief period of time, say one year, a lot of things changed.
For one, I suddenly saw soldiers everywhere, and the military jeeps and the military police at the Metro stations. Now, I am sure they had always been there but I was not interested in the whole thing, and I just filtered it out.

What has it to do with luck and oportunities? Just like the soldiers, the opportunities are all around you. If they are not for you, will not help with your goals you will not see them. But if you open your eyes, all the opportunities that help you to reach your goals will become visible, swarming around you. And then, after you see the opportunities, you have to act on them.

People usually miss the first step, but even if they don’t, they don’t take the second one. Most of the “unlucky” people, who “never have the opportunity” are just standing around, waiting for the opportunity to walk up to them and slap them on the back with a loud “Hi, I’m your opportunity mate!”
We have a saying “He waits for the roast pigeon to fly in his mouth”. Now, I think “unluck” is mostly that waiting around.

And then there is the “but what if…”. Boss says “Steve, we will have to work on this weekend” and Steve, who is a nice guy, will not say “Boss, you know I go along with this thing, but this weekend is the birthday of the wife.”. He will not say because “what if the Boss will say ‘no you have to come’?”.
And he will never know if the Boss would have said “sure, I understand, we will postpone/do it without you”.

They will not ask if something is possible because “what if it’s not?”. And, the opportunity was there, they did not use it, and then they go to the pub, and grumble “I have to work again, the wife will kill me!”.

Don’t wait on luck. That little green stuff up there did not. He went straight for the cracks in the rock, and used them. If it had not, he would have withered and died.

I learned/am learning it the hard way. Believe me, the opportunities are there, just open your eyes and then your mouth. You have to steer the roast pigeon.