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Luck is not chance...

ANARCHit3cht

Call me Archie!
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    I feel like I'm a pretty unlucky person considering what has happened to me in the grand scheme things. But looking at it a little closer, I can see how one might be able to rationalize that luck has nothing to do with it.

    Lately though, I've been feeling pretty lucky. Got a quick and easy job because I knew a guy, then got another job after because of it, won a pax skin code for League of Legends, I'm not dead, and many other things that would be too boring to go into detail right now.

    Do you even believe in luck? Or is life all about perseverance and hard work? If you do, are you a lucky person? If you don't, please explain why. It'll be interesting to hear what some of you think, although it's not really a discussion because there is no hardcore "evidence" so it's all just opinion and how you look at it.

    To sum up my views on it, from a technical standpoint, there is no real thing as luck. Luck is just a word to describe the feeling of joy we get something good happens or goes our way. So in that way, luck is real, but I don't view it as some outside force contributing to our happiness and well-being, but rather it is a specific type of happiness that is typically attributed towards something good that happens to you--especially if its important to you(e.g. getting a job with a lot of competition, scoring a date with bae etc), or required little input on your behalf (winning a contest, getting free stuff). I could go into depth about how I believe luck isn't real, but as I said before, there is no real hard evidence one way or the other, and many established ideals have glaring exceptions.
     
    I do enough negative that even if I was the luckiest man on Earth, my karma would jump on top of my luck and laugh at it because it no longer matters. I do sometimes get somewhat lucky though with things that don't matter, it's just the world hinting at something I'd say, telling me I'll never be able to do anything grand scale with my life and that the best I can hope for is a handful of small victories that hardly amount to anything. That's basically how everything's coming together right now. I've been applying to everywhere within a 50 mile radius of me for the past 2 or 3 months now and calling the managers weekly to check up on things but haven't got hired, however I go out and buy a pack of trading cards and half the pack is things worth $15+. A handful of small victories that amount to nothing in the long run. Stuff like that happens almost every day.
     
    I do believe in luck. And I don't know what exactly luck is, or how it occurs.

    You can be the hardest working person, but without any luck, the things you want in life are probably something that won't come by. There are a lot of factors that go into fulfilling desires, though. Is it something that another person can give you? You'll need luck in making a first impression that implies that you deserve it, or at the very least to take a chance, like your dream job.

    I view luck as catching a break, for most things. Then there are more practical things that I think luck is, like a statistic.
     
    I sort of believe in luck, but at the same time I believe that things happen for a reason... but then at the same time I believe you can make almost anything happen for yourself if you truly strive for it... So then I guess I believe there is a general path but nothing is set in stone and ultimately you have the power to make it what you want if you have the determination to. I THINK AT LEAST

    but I have to add that a lot of people who tell me they're so unlucky are actually just people who don't recognize that a poor action they made had a poor outcome... or they're people who live in denial about their own faults and instead see everyone else as wrong. It's not that they're unlucky they just go about life rubbing everyone else the wrong way and they don't see it, but everyone else does.
     
    Luck is not real. It's fairly simple, when you think about it.

    The universe behaves according to rules. Things don't float away on Earth because gravity exists, without exception. Planets don't explode randomly, because that's not something that happens. Things don't spontaneously come into existence, because that's not how the universe works.

    Everything in the world is to a very specific code; the concept behind luck is that these rules somehow bend in favour of a particular individual. This doesn't make sense, though; the universe is not a living entity and doesn't get to pick and choose when the rules of reality are in effect and when they aren't. To all there is a reason; and while things may seem to be the result of luck, it's somewhat foolish to believe that something so supernatural could exist. Good things cannot be accredited to luck, but to the method that they are achieved.

    Or something.
     
    I too believe in luck but like Nick, I'm not sure what causes it, why it happens, or what it exactly is. I've caught a few "lucky" breaks in my life where things were destined to go wrong and should have, but for some reason they didn't. I guess that makes luck real enough for me.
     
    I don't believe in luck at all. I do believe in Karma though.
     
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