WHAT IS LUCK?
We have all heard people using the word lucky and our everyday language is full of phrases with the word lucky in them i.e. “I’m so unlucky”, “you’re so lucky”, “my luck has run out”, “you can count your lucky stars”. All these sayings cover a multitude of circumstances without any rational explanation
A friend of mine felt he was so unlucky that he never missed the opportunity to trot out his hard done by stories. “My luck is so bad”, he would insist, “that when they were giving out the good luck, not only was I at the back of the queue but they actually shut up shop two days earlier!”.
What is luck and what do we mean to be lucky or unlucky. Is there any logic behind the word lucky ?. You see to some people being lucky, means being at the right place at the right time. Take a footballer - he’s got to be at the right place when the ball is passed to him to score the goal that will send the fans wild with excitement. Did the footballer make his own good fortune or was he just lucky?.
A famous golfer who people said was lucky because he often got a hole in one, dismissed the notion by saying “the harder I practise the luckier I get”.
Different people see luck in different ways. A while back I was discussing with a friend what we would do if we won the Lottery. After talking about what we would and wouldn’t do if our numbers come up. I said to him you would have to be lucky to win, he said “not if I consciously pick those six numbers and they came up. If I went for a lucky dip and won I would have being lucky”. Working on that rationale I think he’s got a point, but if you asked a statistician he might say that considering the odds against picking the right numbers make any winner lucky.
Occasionally with hints of jealousy we have all said isn’t he/she lucky to have such a gorgeous boyfriend/girlfriend. The truth is they had the confidence to ask out the girl or boy of their dreams. A confident person can deal with rejection. For a confident person it’s a challenge and an opportunity to ask as many times as it takes to charm their ideal partner into their arms. For the rest of us it’s heads down, forgetting that our so call ’lucky’ friends did not stop asking at the first, second or third rejection they encountered.
A lucky escape is a sound bite adjective that suggests we were fortunate to have come to no harm. Lucky charms, old wives tales and superstitions can all be controlling factors on our life, in a positive or negative way.
Personally I don’t think luck has anything to do with whether good or bad deeds come our way. Good and bad things will happen and that’s just a fact of life. It’s how we react to them that matters. In my opinion luck is a phrase used to describe any combination of happenings based on the laws of possibility and probability.
To be honest I don’t consider my self to be lucky or unlucky . I’m just really thankful and grateful to God for all that I have and the positive things which are happening in my life. I’m also thankful that my faith gives me the strength to cope with all the negative things. And that is also thanks to God and by the grace of Jesus Christ.
I also know worrying about whether you’re lucky or unlucky can just mess with your head and waste a lot of precious time. I prefer to spend my time praying and trusting in God and I know that loving him means I’m onto a winner!!!.
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