Good luck, bad luck

chic

chic

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Do we make/direct our luck with our predominant thoughts or are life's events random? Have you had your life's course altered by a stroke of bad luck/misfortune? Or good luck/good fortune?
I've experienced both. Extreme good luck from a positive move when I was a youngster. It had nothing to do with my thoughts but rather a change in evironment which is important to us all. Or maybe I did interpret the move as a positive and it had a positive outcome because of that? This stuff confuses me. What comes first? The positive thoughts or are the positive thoughts a reaction to the positive changes in one's reality? :unsure: What do you think and has luck played a part in your life?
 

I never know tbh... Chic...

I was lucky to have the best doctors who brought me to life when I was stillborn.... ( my twin died)... but unlucky because it was to parents who didn't want me... .. so that was the start.. and altho' they say you make your own luck in this world.. sometimes it's what you're born into...
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Stuff happens. If we like it, then it's lucky. And if we don't like it, it's "unlucky". When stuff happens, it's our resilience, and capacity to deal with it that matters- not 'luck'.
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You've said it very well, @fuzzybuddy!

If we like it, it's lucky. If we don't like it, that's sucky!

But every action that we've ever undertaken in the
entirety of our lives, led us to be right here, right now.

Think about a "lucky" rabbit's foot. Wasn't so lucky for the rabbit, was it?
Luck is like religion, it can't be proven or dis-proven but folks see it both ways.
 
Am a science person that from pure physical logic does not believe in actions without forces beyond the possible laws of nature. For example magic or or favorites of theological philosophers, omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence, or a list of other supernatural paranormal favorites of sci-fi and fantasy. And yes that include LUCK, especially in regards to gambling.
 
David777 said:
Am a science person that from pure physical logic does not believe in actions without forces beyond the possible laws of nature. For example magic or or favorites of theological philosophers, omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence, or a list of other supernatural paranormal favorites of sci-fi and fantasy. And yes that include LUCK, especially in regards to gambling.
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Luck in gambling is a real thing. Last week after my wife finished her spa session we planned on gambling. Slot machines to be exact. Last bet of the $400.00 we decided was enough for one day we did get lucky. Only $1.84 left of the $400.00 and the machine bet was $1.88. For 4 cents I put in a dollar to complete the bet. Hit a bonus for $136.66.

Took the $136.66. to another machine that had bonus levels at mini, minor ,major & grand. At about $118.00 got a chance to blindly pick for one of those choices.

As LUCK would have it hit the major for $1065.50. Yea not federally taxable! Of course that goes into our fun money kitty for going out this Wednesday. And as most know the casinos are still in business because LUCK isn't constant.
 
I saw a headline yesterday where somebody won the lottery twice in one day! That's luck.

The type of family we're born into is just luck.

When you get a defective product when the ratings were positive: bad luck. If you bought it from a retailer that doesn't take returns. That's on you.

Your grades in school? Not luck. You going or not going to college? That's got nothing to do with luck. You get a bad boss? Well, it's on you to know how to deal with it. Not having the ability? There are a lot of factors involved. Your confidence, self-esteem, intelligence, natural abilities? Some luck, some not.

Take Patrick Mahomes. He's a great quarterback. He has natural ability. But he was also born into a wealthy family and his father was a professional pitcher. Luck. But he works hard. That's not luck, unless you count the environment in which he was raised, which was luck.
 
chic said:
What do you think and has luck played a part in your life?
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Never called it luck
Stuff just happens
Had some close calls early on

Relearned a lot living in the mountains for six years
Nature has its seasons, but seasons are whimsical
Prepare...prepare....prepare
Give yerself a chance to survive

then

Hope your efforts were enough

Sometimes they are

sometimes not
 
Interesting answers my friends. I was thinking today of an old friend of mine who was busy working one day and fell from collapsed staging 20 feet onto concrete flooring. He was seriously injured and in the hospital for six months months during which time he lost everything. He had to move back home with his family after he was released from the hospital because he had nothing left of his own. He tried to sue the place for the cost of his medical bills and lost even more money. To me this is serious misfortune/bad luck or whatever you want to call it. This one incident changed the whole course of his life and none of it was his fault, it just happened.
 
Was working for a local company. Other worker made false claim about harassment. Got laid off, stuck temp agency for UI (They NOT happy)

They finally ask me to go work another place, Oregon (yuk!) Worked 7 months, heatstroke.

Solid week of no eating, little drinking and no smoking. After a week, decided to go as long as I could.

Today, if I met her, I'd hug her, freed from the worst addiction ever. Besides, she probably still smokes......Luck? Good timing? Just thankful.
 

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