#307 – What's the meaning of "good luck?"

If good and bad are meaningless categories, according to the Taoist principle ("who knows what is good and what is bad?") what do we mean when we wish someone "good luck?" What does "luck" even mean?

Yesterday I quit my coffee-machine selling job. It felt like a resonant decision––the novelty no longer excited me and I faced the reality: I'm not learning new skills, making connections, or developing my craft. Staying in that job didn't seem to make sense.

Today, I found a posting that felt right and applied. Later, talking about what's next for me, my dear friend Barbara Huson wished me "good luck."

The comment threw me into an unexpected state of confusion. "What is luck?" I asked, and what does it mean to have "good luck?"

How can we reconcile the concept of "good luck" with the act of surrendering and accepting life's unfolding? And if "accepting" relies on the knowing that whatever needs to happen will happen, whether I want it or not, why would I wish that things be different from how they're going to be?

Barbara's wise response helped me regain my center. With "good luck," she said, she means "may you receive whatever is in your highest interest."

And "whatever is in my highest interest" may be getting the job or maybe not getting it, but I don't know, because, "who's to say what is good and what is bad?"

Although whatever I get, it'll be what I needed to get in order to take one more step in my evolution.

Where are you hoping for "good luck" when "receiving whatever is in your highest interest" would take you closer to freedom?

Love,

Carolina