Luck / Chance

Have come across the word 'Luck' a lot too many times in the past few days. Although couldn't relate the reference to myself much. Actually have denied the existence of 'Luck' every time I came across it.

One thing that I want to bring to the notice of the readers is that although Chance is used synonymously to Luck, but in this text the word Chance has the mathematical meaning of probability.

Luck, according to me, is the false ray of hope given to the helpless man. It is used to make a person believe that he is not in control of his life. In fact a man is never out of control of his life. He is out of control of a situation. A situation that is caused because of a series of events that he is knowingly or unknowingly,directly or indirectly, and even sometimes not at all, involved in. His life is not out of control because the situation that arises also had his actions as one of the variables.

Luck is a word which separates the strong from the weak, successful from the unsuccessful, powerful from the ones without power. Its is an escape goat for all of us.Have seen many people using the word luck when they are unsuccessful. But it is not because it was actually their luck, but its because at that time they grow weak and are not able to accept that they were not good enough to achieve what was expected.If you give a 100% to something and are not able to accomplish it, does not mean that it was your hard luck. It simply means - What is takes to achieve it is better than your best. Improve yourself rather than blaming it on luck.

What pisses me off the most is the ease of convenience with which people use this word. Very rarely you hear a successful person using this word. Its always his hard work and the right decisions. But for a Failure, why do most of the people deny the lack of commitment and the decisions taken and blame it on Luck. The decisions taken may be the correct ones at the time, but become wrong later on.

One of the most elaborate dictionary meanings of luck says "Luck refers to that which happens to a person beyond that person's control. This view incorporates phenomena that are chance happenings, where there is no uncertainty involved, or where the uncertainty is irrelevant."

The definition uses a very interesting word 'Chance'.

Chance, in layman terms, is a way of expressing the knowledge or belief that an event will occur or has occured. Synonymous to Probability? Right.

What most of the people actually call luck, is a mathematical equation. A mathematical equation which has many variables out of our knowledge, but not out of our control. Most of these variables are the efforts we put in, the decisions we take, influence of the current situation(which again is dependent upon the events and decisions in some other equation), influence of the people around us etc etc etc. Actually it all zeroes upon the theory of Causality. Causality denotes a necessary relationship between one event ( called cause) and another event(called effect) which is a direct consequence of the first.

Though cause and effect are typically related to events, other candidates include objects, processes, properties, variables, facts, and states of affairs; which of these make up the correct causal relata, and how best to characterize the nature of the relationship between them, has as yet no universally accepted answer, and remains under discussion.

Would like to round up by saying that 'LUCK IS A RESULT OF POOR THINKING OR POOR REASONING'