Badluck And a Story for Ages
We have all experienced bad luck in our lives. You can name a bad luck incident as recent as yesterday or today. We can debate about luck all day and still wouldnāt be done. Some say itās about the probability of an event taking place in your life.
Like you are walking by on the footpath and a car hits you from behind. Thatās luck too, but a bad one. You didnāt do anything but the driver certainly did. His action contributed to your loss. This tells us that we are all connected and while it still can be explained via probability matrix events like this would always baffle us and make us question everything about that day.
There was one such day for Tsutomu Yamaguchi where his bad luck took a whole new dimension. The magnitude of that bad luck was immense. Tsutomu was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, on a business trip when the USA decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. He was badly injured but miraculously survived the attack.
After a preliminary treatment he moved to his home in Nagasaki where on August 9, 1945, the USA dropped another atomic bomb. He survived. Again.
The story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi sent me on a wild chase. I often think about the role of luck in our lives. We talk about being at the right time at the right place but Tsutomu was at the wrong place at the wrong time twice and still survived. Will you rate him unlucky because he was present at both the venues of the nuclear attack or lucky that he survived both?
There is a lot that we havenāt uncovered about the role of mathematics in our lives, we explain this probability of black swan events as āluckā. We do it because there is no alternative logical explanation for us to define such events.
Have you ever faced such events in your life which cannot be explained logically?