world?countries?borders? think again

He is Palestinian American, she in Indian, we are Lebanese. In Dubai, eating a salad where the pesto was from italy, the tomatoes from Saudi, the serving set from Lebanon -Phoenicians rule(d)- . Then we had steak from the US, wine from France with glasses made in the UK.
And you say borders?
Forget it, i can already see the day where people will eat the same food, dress the same way, speak the same language and reminisce about who they were. Only a big part of the world will not follow suite, and then the little wars we see now will be dwardfed by clashes among more different peoples, in larger groups, with more reasons to eliminate each other. I hope we'll have colonized Mars by then.

lady luck

There is a whole swirl of ideas going in my head as to whether we can affect our luck or not. By luck I mean the occurrence of events, not the current belief about luck, roulette-style…
I just lost a game of Risk (The Lord of the Rings version, real cool, my preciousss) at one point I had an ant-farm of soldiers on one country and I lost!!! My loosing odds were 9:1!!! And it didn’t stop there, I went on loosing and loosing at odds that were worse than you standing on a highway abandoned for sixty years and then a car passing and crushing you…I hated it
I know that thoughts go out as energy…if you think about something you can make it happen (hence the ubiquitous sayings in all languages going around: if you’re scared of the monkey you WILL get it)
Can we affect our luck/the happenings of events? Is it true that if you look at life positively it DOES become positive – drop the argument that says “you can look at things in either a positive or negative way – I’m talking about the things that are inarguably negative, LIKE LOOSING A FREAKIN’ RISK GAME…
I wonder...
Conclusion – if I meet Lady Luck -it should be lady luck, no capitals, she don’t deserve that- in any parallel of universe, I’m slitting her throat.
Goodnight.

P. J. O'Rourke said it right:
“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.”