Growth is the process of responding positively to change.
Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.
When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.
The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.