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Importance Of Chance

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‘Chance’ is a term that I used to fear. ‘Just take a chance,’ people would say, and the short phrase that followed after was what scared me the most—‘you will never know.’ The thought of doing something without knowing what would happen next terrified me in the same way driving a car without being able to see the road ahead of you would. The view I took on chance was one that was extremely myopic; I was unable to see the beauty within the capricious workings of chance—that is—until it became the very basis of the most meaningful and significant relationship I have had in these past sixteen years of my life. Eight years on, I still remember exactly how I met my best friend. It was, simply put, a chance meeting—unplanned and unexpected. …show more content…

However, by the unpredictability of chance, things did not end there. The next morning my best friend apologized for her sister’s actions and then it was all back to normal, or rather, even better than normal after knowing that even conflicts like this could not sink our friendship. Chance works in truly whimsical ways; it is like spinning the wheel at a lucky draw and thinking that it has stopped, that you are going to walk away with nothing. However, it suddenly moves past the dowel and lands on the next wedge instead. So take a chance, because anything could happen. Regardless of the outcome, just remember that it is, after all, a gamble; learn from experience and keep an open mind. Do not be afraid to take another chance, just roll the dice again as there are so many possibilities left to be explored. “Take a chance, you will never know.” Chance has given me something so precious that I would never exchange for anything else in this world, and for that, I have learned to appreciate its enigma. It is intrinsically impossible to avoid chances; our lives revolve around chances: chance meetings, chance occurrences, and our very own actions—the chances that we take and the chances that could follow from our actions. Why do we try so hard to avert something that is interwoven so beautifully into our

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