Life is a Craps Shoot

Look at all the happy diverse people in the picture above. Equality: it's finally here!

Life is a gamble. Ever since the day you were conceived there were odds being placed on you as to whether or not you would reach your mother's egg. You're probability of being born was somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000,000 to 1. How unbelievably improbable! Why did you even bother in the first place? You'd have a better shot at winning the lottery.

Since your arrival into this world you've been faced with other probability affairs as well. Such events have included your likelihood in being picked for a sports team, your acceptance into colleges, your chances of ending up in prison (depending largely on your ethnic background), your adoption into an organization, your candidacy for a job, and your odds of getting into a car accident on a daily basis.

Whoever didn't take statistics in school is missing out. Luck is almost as important as skill and it's why we have so many different superstitions floating around to accommodate for it. The rabbit's foot, wishing wells, and women blowing on our dice are all myths that have no way of ever being proven or disproved. Instead of disqualifying any of these old wives' tales I'd say you'd be better off embracing them. Skill can only get us so far in life and sometimes we need to call upon luck to be on our side.

Come on 11!

~Anthans