What Are The Odds?

Prachi Jain
3 min readApr 25, 2021

How often we keep repeating this sentence what were the odds that this couldn't or could have happened. Sometimes, there are 50–50% chances, sometimes there is not even 1% chance, and still happens to us, and a lot of time even after we being sure about it for 99% of the time it doesn’t happen.
Can you see how complicated things are and the odds of happening it are.

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Right from our existence to finding people whom we want to connect with, whom we connect with, making meaning full relationships, leaving impressions where ever you go, to having a space for yourself for being the way you are, getting accepted the way you are, your survival despite all odds, why do we always end up saying despite all odds it happens/happened to me?

We are filled with compassion, empathy, gratefulness, and what makes us “ US” is there was always a chance where we could have shut ourselves completely and decided not to move an inch but we decided to do so and we are here. The odds weren't around me because I was stuck in a pit because I felt useless the odds followed me when I decided to take the first step.

I keep asking myself do I need this or want this and what are the odds, followed by that I always plan worst-case scenario in my mind and I don't get carried away with it instead I keep myself open to thinking about it and keep giving myself a chance to explore whatever is coming my way. Sometimes it gets so exhausting that I feel like running away the other days I might be out of energy or no motivation to work or move ahead but what keeps me going is there might be some odds that might help me and I will at least not have the regret of leaving it in middle or regret not even starting it.

Is there a place where you are certain you’ll find eternal peace? Are you ever afraid of never amounting to anything? Is the essence of life somewhere around the corner of the Milky Way and we just can’t see it?
What are the odds of you liking the person liking you back?
0 to 100 but what is more important is you need to figure out for yourself by saying what you mean and what you feel out loud is because those your feeling and you should not stop yourself from saying to one just because you think or feel she/he is out of the league. The feelings don't depend on how the person reacts to them instead it depends on how I feel and what I want to feel. My feelings are my problem it is no one else’s.

The chances of me writing this blog was not even 1% and it took me some time to gather the courage and to write whatever I can and all I can say is I took the right call I took more than an hour to even write the first sentence. I guess it's all about taking chances and giving it and try your level best to make the most of it.

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Prachi Jain

I will meet you right in the middle of all the chaos, neither this side or that side..