DAME LUCK

 DAME LUCK

Why suddenly a topic that looks ‘intrusive’ while the mainstream items have been on South Indian Cine Music Directors? There is just nothing sacrosanct about the main stream items per se. Still it would be hard to defend such inserts as ‘Dame Luck’, in the present sequence of items. Please take it as a relief. 

If one has had enough experience through the meanders of life, without batting an eyelid or battling an idea, [s]he would right away endorse the omnipotence of ‘Dame Luck’. If there had never been something of the likes of ‘Dame Luck’, the expression ‘many a slip between the cup and the lip’ would not have emerged in the first place. If a slip can ruin the sipping of your tea/ coffee and ruin your fabric, it implies that Dame Luck can play wonders or havoc with the same felicity. How often we have returned empty handed from an attempt of booking a ticket for a specific game or show or even a ‘Darshan’ of Lord?

Is it not proof enough to concede that ‘effort is one thing and effect is another’? Earnest effort if ending in failure, means that between effort and effect a slip has come by and who else but the Dame Luck would have come between the two? Well, it also stands to reason to believe that successful efforts do not remind us of ‘Dame Luck’ either. Now the question is – should we succeed or be reminded of ‘Dame Luck’ all the time? We –humans are so ‘self-aggrandized’ that we tempt providence to remind us of our insignificance in every one of our deeds. Had it not been so, our EGO would run riot and bring off greater catastrophe to the society around. So, putting one in place is also a providential priority and getting elevated to a spot does not imply eternal placement ‘there’. It is a ‘roller coaster’ game of changing positions with parallel surge of ADRENALIN within us.

Unless tossed up and down like a dice, humans never learn lessons. Just to make us learn, the Divine Dame Luck gets to be a  LAME DUCK –a tentative state achieved by ‘intended’ spoonerism.

‘Lady Luck or Dame Luck‘is personification of Fortune as a lady or Dame in English language. When fortune fails Dame Luck turns a Lame Duck; is it not?

Prof. K.Raman