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While the history of St. Patrick’s Day dates all the way back through hundreds of years, it serves to honor the first Patron Saint of Ireland, St Patrick. It wasn’t celebrated as a holiday until the seventeenth century. As the story goes, Patrick was working as a shepherd and he had a spiritual awakening, believing to be spoken to by God. He then went about the land, converting thousands of Pagans into Christians, using the shamrock to illustrate the holy trinity to the people. The holiday itself is celebrated on his date of death, rather than his date of birth.
For twenty four hours, on March the seventeenth every year, the entire world is Irish. This especially includes those of us who aren’t naturally born with a pot of gold and gleaming rainbow. The planet drowns in the color green because it’s everywhere and for me, it’s the one day I get to be a Weasley! Instead of over dosing on a green malt beverage, I’m going to talk about two things that are associated with St. Patrick’s Day, at least they are depending on who you’re talking to!
The Luck of The Irish and Felix Felicis, or Liquid Luck. The real question you need to answer for yourself is, which would you rather have? Both are very beneficial in their own unique ways, but one has to consider both to ensure a well-educated decision.
While the history of St. Patrick’s Day dates all the way back through hundreds of years, it serves to honor the first Patron Saint of Ireland, St Patrick. It wasn’t celebrated as a holiday until the seventeenth century. As the story goes, Patrick was working as a shepherd and he had a spiritual awakening, believing to be spoken to by God. He then went about the land, converting thousands of Pagans into Christians, using the shamrock to illustrate the holy trinity to the people. The holiday itself is celebrated on his date of death, rather than his date of birth.
For twenty four hours, on March the seventeenth every year, the entire world is Irish. This especially includes those of us who aren’t naturally born with a pot of gold and gleaming rainbow. The planet drowns in the color green because it’s everywhere and for me, it’s the one day I get to be a Weasley! Instead of over dosing on a green malt beverage, I’m going to talk about two things that are associated with St. Patrick’s Day, at least they are depending on who you’re talking to!
The Luck of The Irish and Felix Felicis, or Liquid Luck. The real question you need to answer for yourself is, which would you rather have? Both are very beneficial in their own unique ways, but one has to consider both to ensure a well-educated decision.
Click for Source Image The Luck of The Irish
Those who are ‘lucky’ enough to be born with Irish blood flowing through their veins, are believed to be naturally born ‘lucky’ people. I will admit, there is something special about the people and their culture. There is an air of enchantment and magic in everything they do, even the way they speak! I could listen to an Irish brogue all day long, talking about nothing in particular.
If Irish people truly believe they are born with a special kind of good luck, does that also make them superstitious people as well? It makes me wonder if they think anyone who isn’t any amount of Irish, does truly have bad luck. I have never met an Irishman who said it out loud, but every culture has their old wives tales, and I do wonder if this happens to be one of them.
I don’t know if I myself believe they are luckier than anyone else, but for those who are Irish, it must be fun to think they are some special sort of lucky. The ginger hair and blue eyes never hurt anyone either! Gred and Forge Weasley were very proud of their Irish heritage and made no attempt to hide it at the Quidditch World Cup.
Those who are ‘lucky’ enough to be born with Irish blood flowing through their veins, are believed to be naturally born ‘lucky’ people. I will admit, there is something special about the people and their culture. There is an air of enchantment and magic in everything they do, even the way they speak! I could listen to an Irish brogue all day long, talking about nothing in particular.
If Irish people truly believe they are born with a special kind of good luck, does that also make them superstitious people as well? It makes me wonder if they think anyone who isn’t any amount of Irish, does truly have bad luck. I have never met an Irishman who said it out loud, but every culture has their old wives tales, and I do wonder if this happens to be one of them.
I don’t know if I myself believe they are luckier than anyone else, but for those who are Irish, it must be fun to think they are some special sort of lucky. The ginger hair and blue eyes never hurt anyone either! Gred and Forge Weasley were very proud of their Irish heritage and made no attempt to hide it at the Quidditch World Cup.
Click for Source Image Felix Felicis
This liquid gold substance also goes by the name of Liquid Luck. It makes all of its drinker’s endeavours, while under its influence, to be lucky or turn out well. This puts the person in direct control of the times they experience good luck. Mr. Potter is a wonderful example. He used Felix so he could recover a most valuable memory from Professor Horace Slughorn, regarding horcruxes and Lord Voldemort. In the movie, Half-Blood Prince, Dan Rad does a hilarious job of acting out how it effects a person. Harry was carefree and flying by the seat of his pants, likely because it boosted his overall confidence level. Another great example of Felix is from the battle of Hogwarts, when Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Luna, and Neville take it and they never get hit by the Death Eater’s jinxes. Felix helped them to walk away from the fight completely unscathed.
Some opportunistic times to need great volumes of good luck would be: when you’re buying lottery tickets; when you’re doing a blind audition on The Voice; when you’re about to start a revolutionary war; or when you think you’re about to be killed in a horrific car accident and you need to survive miraculously. All of these are legitimate circumstances in which Felix would be most handy to have floating around.
Felix has its disadvantage in being dangerous if too much is ingested in gluttonous quantities. Nobody wants to be caught in a storm of reckless behaviour. There’s an obnoxiously huge difference between lucky and cocky. Slurping too much Felix at a time will take you from confident to arrogant, and who ever loved arrogance anyway? Because of this, whoever it is that uses Felix should be finely practised in the art of self-control. Otherwise, they may find themselves bumbling about like Cormac McLaggen. He might not have taken Felix, but he was a special kind of cocky and arrogant.
As does everything in life, they both have their ups and downs. The adage that says ‘too much of anything is a bad thing’ rings true in these particular circumstances.
What exactly is bad luck anyway? Is it just an imaginary power created by some severely bored people, or is it an unseen force that periodically plagues people? We all like to say ‘knowing my luck’ when faced with a sticky situation. When you’re feeling hopeless, it’s incredibly difficult to be optimistic; we all know what that feels like. It isn’t always rainbows and sunshine, and you all know that! But, alas through every dismal storm, there is a sun shining brightly. The light at the end of every tunnel we face in life. We all look at that light as a sign that our luck is going to change for the better.
Does this mean that ‘good luck’ is merely just a result of an optimistic attitude? Can it possibly be true that anyone could have ‘good luck’? If a positive outlook and a little bit of faith are all it takes to attract some good fortune our way, then it is truly up to us individually to be the makers of our own luck.
What would you do to manifest your own good luck?
This liquid gold substance also goes by the name of Liquid Luck. It makes all of its drinker’s endeavours, while under its influence, to be lucky or turn out well. This puts the person in direct control of the times they experience good luck. Mr. Potter is a wonderful example. He used Felix so he could recover a most valuable memory from Professor Horace Slughorn, regarding horcruxes and Lord Voldemort. In the movie, Half-Blood Prince, Dan Rad does a hilarious job of acting out how it effects a person. Harry was carefree and flying by the seat of his pants, likely because it boosted his overall confidence level. Another great example of Felix is from the battle of Hogwarts, when Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Luna, and Neville take it and they never get hit by the Death Eater’s jinxes. Felix helped them to walk away from the fight completely unscathed.
Some opportunistic times to need great volumes of good luck would be: when you’re buying lottery tickets; when you’re doing a blind audition on The Voice; when you’re about to start a revolutionary war; or when you think you’re about to be killed in a horrific car accident and you need to survive miraculously. All of these are legitimate circumstances in which Felix would be most handy to have floating around.
Felix has its disadvantage in being dangerous if too much is ingested in gluttonous quantities. Nobody wants to be caught in a storm of reckless behaviour. There’s an obnoxiously huge difference between lucky and cocky. Slurping too much Felix at a time will take you from confident to arrogant, and who ever loved arrogance anyway? Because of this, whoever it is that uses Felix should be finely practised in the art of self-control. Otherwise, they may find themselves bumbling about like Cormac McLaggen. He might not have taken Felix, but he was a special kind of cocky and arrogant.
As does everything in life, they both have their ups and downs. The adage that says ‘too much of anything is a bad thing’ rings true in these particular circumstances.
What exactly is bad luck anyway? Is it just an imaginary power created by some severely bored people, or is it an unseen force that periodically plagues people? We all like to say ‘knowing my luck’ when faced with a sticky situation. When you’re feeling hopeless, it’s incredibly difficult to be optimistic; we all know what that feels like. It isn’t always rainbows and sunshine, and you all know that! But, alas through every dismal storm, there is a sun shining brightly. The light at the end of every tunnel we face in life. We all look at that light as a sign that our luck is going to change for the better.
Does this mean that ‘good luck’ is merely just a result of an optimistic attitude? Can it possibly be true that anyone could have ‘good luck’? If a positive outlook and a little bit of faith are all it takes to attract some good fortune our way, then it is truly up to us individually to be the makers of our own luck.
What would you do to manifest your own good luck?
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