Fortune or prosperity is something that always favors the bold. Although fortune is said to be blind, with no distinction between the good and the bad, the wise and the foolish and the brave and the cowardly, it can be seen that fortune mainly favors those who are always bold enough to take up some venture which summons luck.
In horse races, fortune favors only those who are willing to stake their money. Those who do not stake their money remain outside, they cannot enter horse-race. Similarly luck befalls mostly on those people who seek it out. Fortune comes not to those who rarely seek it. Only an ardent wisher of fortune can have it. If we just sit and wish for luck to befall, it would not happen. Only if we try something worthwhile which needs luck, shall we have fortune.
Fortune in the broad sense is not merely money. It can be prosperity, success, fame or anything. There are many situations in life that we need luck. We should keep up hope that something lucky will happen in times of peril and distress. If we lose heart, we are unknowingly blocking fortune out. Only bold people who have courage not to lose heart can have access to fortune!
