The Clover Oracle

You’re outside at a park in the early spring, touching some grass and connecting with the world around you, when you notice large clumps of clover patches underfoot. You bend down just to see - maybe one will be a four-leaf clover? As you’re looking, you can’t explain it, but somehow you know you must keep looking for that four-leaf clover. Something about it is important for you right here, right now. Like you know there’s a four-leaf clover in this particular patch, if you just look a little longer.

You’re about to give up and continue on your way when you spot one. A four-leaf clover. Your lucky day! When you pick it from the ground, an ancient clover spirit rises from the grass also, its green face smiling at you.

You have found The Clover oracle, and it has a story to share with you today.

The Clover Oracle says:

Did you know that four-leaf clovers aren’t really as rare as we say they are? Estimates put the odds at 1 in 10,000 clovers having four leaves, and others say it could even be as few as 1 in every 5,000 clovers that are four-leafed.

But it doesn’t feel like that when you find one. It feels lucky. Fated. Like the world is smiling back at you. And, well, it is. You are a lucky one. It’s just that you’re always lucky, and in this moment it’s been confirmed to you with your chance discovery of an unusual clover.

Statistically, to find a four-leaf clover, you have to look at a lot of clover. Imagine the clover you seek is 10,000 clovers thataway. You will find the clover, the odds are in your favor that you absolutely will. But if you’re starting with 1, you have 9,998 more to look at first. Sometimes you’re starting with 1. Sometimes you’re starting with 5,555. Sometimes you’re starting on the very one you seek, number 10,000.

Most people who say they want to find a four-leaf clover will look half-heartedly at a few patches of clover leaves. They usually won’t find what they’re looking for in the first few attempts and give up too soon. They get bored. They don’t commit. They say they want chance to go their way, but they try once or twice and then they’re done. But the odds say they have to try up to 10,000 times. Or maybe only 5,000. And - during the process - the treasured clover will suddenly be there. Probably, actually, more than one will be there.

The same is true of luck itself. You have to run the statistics. You have to play to win.

And that is why, since you’re here, you do so often win. Even if it doesn’t feel like it because sometimes it takes a long time to play the numbers. Even if it doesn’t feel like you’re always lucky because sometimes the winning lot is still steadily marching toward you. But you win very often, because you play very often, and you dedicate yourself to the luck you want to see materialize.

Luck is the result of repeated effort and openness to opportunity. The result of: Okay, I looked in that field yesterday. Today I will continue on looking in this one. The result of: My neighbor said they have a patch of clover in their yard. I’ll go look and see what they have over there.

It’s right place right time, right throw of the dice, right pick of the color, right spin of the dial, right turn of the wheel. But you can’t be there to collect your lucky winnings if you didn’t show up in the first place.

You keep playing numbers, you keep putting in effort, you keep your eye on the prize, and you stay open to the possibility - the very real possibility - that you will find the 1 in 5,000. The 1 in 10,000. The 1 in a million.

You are always lucky. You are always a decision away from the probability of winning something good. You are always keeping things open for luck to find its way in.

So you make your own luck. You make it by keeping after it.

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Bailey Lewis - the voice behind and creator of Found Oracles - is an award-winning writer, multimedia storyteller, and owner of Bailey Sends Word Story Studio.

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