When people succeed. It is because of HARD WORK. Luck has nothing to do with success. Do you AGREE or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.

I agree that success is earned by a lifetime of hard work and has little or nothing at all to do with luck. Luck is for gamblers and ne’er-do-wells who pin their hopes on the roll of dice or a Lotto ticket stub. While I will grant that there are people who will win that pot, people who are “lucky,” most will eventually lose their winnings. They will end up right back where they started. They are the ones who believe in “luck.”

Luck is a tool the cunning use on the foolish. In our country gambling is abetted by the government, the Catholic church, and media. The government’s pin money comes from the winnings the Philippine Games and Amusements Corporation (PAGCOR) rakes in from gamble operations throughout the country. The Catholic church keeps quiet and lives richly on the dole out of the government. Sweepstakes ticket vendors have for so long been selling tickets around churches that the act of buying a ticket is now seen as an act of charity.

The brainwashing is also done through lunchtime variety shows on television. These shows play to an audience mostly comprised by the impoverished masses of the Philippines. The shows play on the unreasoning desire of stumbling on unearned windfalls. A variety of foolish games of chance and cleverly designed contests keeps the audience riveted to their screens and forever dreaming of that wondrous day when they each come to their own.

I believe that success is earned through hard work, the serious dedication to purposeful toil, the application of generous amounts of elbow grease, that frees up the mind to see opportunities for breakthroughs. It is hard work and the opportunities it creates that lead to success.