How lucky are you

I think that 'unlucky' people think they are unlucky because they only focus on the bad things that happen to them. If something 'lucky' happened to them, they would quickly forget it because they think they are an unlucky person.

I think the same happens for people who believe in karma, they only seem to focus on events that they want, and think the outcome is determined by their favourite. Well, depending on your definition of karma.
 
I'm generally quite lucky, things tend to just go my way, I've never really had anything bad happen to me (touch wood).

No unexpected deaths in the family, no periods of real sadness, etc.

Heck, even when I am unlucky (ruptured appendix whilst on holiday) I end up being lucky (stayed in one of the best private hospitals in South Africa, all paid for by my travel insurance).

My gf on the other hand has terrible luck, anything that can go wrong will go wrong for her, poor thing. She argues that meeting me is one of the luckiest things ever though /ego :p
 
Hehe it seem to have turned to a philosophical debate. Many people are saying they are "lucky" for not experiencing the unlikely event and while I understand the sentiment I can not agree. Would you thank "something" for a meteorite not falling on your head? The chances of that happening are so small we take not being hit by a meteor as a given normality. But some people will get hit, surely they'd be considered unlucky.

There seem to be a diference in definitions of that word, when I say unlucky I mean when a person's outcome of a random event turns out to be negative while the odds are in favour of a positive. ie normal day 90%, getting hit by meteor 10%. It is unlucky to get hit by it while not getting hit is expected.
 
Nerusy said:
Hehe it seem to have turned to a philosophical debate. Many people are saying they are "lucky" for not experiencing the unlikely event and while I understand the sentiment I can not agree. Would you thank "something" for a meteorite not falling on your head? The chances of that happening are so small we take not being hit by a meteor as a given normality. But some people will get hit, surely they'd be considered unlucky.

There seem to be a diference in definitions of that word, when I say unlucky I mean when a person's outcome of a random event turns out to be negative while the odds are in favour of a positive. ie normal day 90%, getting hit by meteor 10%. It is unlucky to get hit by it while not getting hit is expected.
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I see what you mean...I think a lot of people in this thread are trying to avoid luck being described as some sort of cosmic force that effects everyone, which is obviously is not. I doubt all human cultures even have acknowledged that 'luck' exists, although this would primarily be the cultures which have remained unaffected by civilisation as a whole.
 
Due to prolonged exposure to everything going wrong, I now fully expect it to. To be honest it saves quite a bit of disappointment because you are always expecting it. To explain, if every door you passed through a huge bucket of **** fell on your head, how many doors do you pass through before you both expect and embrace the bucket ?.

In short, I dont register on the luck scale.
 
I recently won a lyle and scott jumper (£85 on the site!) from a fb competition, and thought I'd use this thread to brag :p.

However I think thats the first thing I've won tbh...
 
Nerusy said:
Indeed, statistically people who always experience the "bad" odds must exist just as much as people on the other, "good" extreme but of course they are rare. Most of us would have average "luck" of events following their "right" distribution. Although of course some people tend to remember negatives more labeling themselves as unlucky while in actually their odds have been more or less even and vice verse.
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'luck' isn't a quality you can posses - just because you've perceived that you've been unlucky in the past doesn't infer that you'll be unlucky in the future.

In a random, independent event, with set odds, you've got the same chance of success/failure as anyone else regardless of your perceived luckiness/unluckiness in prior events.

So yes some people might well be 'unlucky' most of their lives in so far that they've tended to get more negative results from random events - though the perception that you've been unlucky so far is irrelevant and can't be used to predict that you'll be unlucky in future nor that you posses any quality that naturally makes you lucky or unlucky.

What I'm trying to say is that you can experience being lucky or being unlucky as a result of a event that is down to chance- you can't posses a quality that makes you more likely to be lucky/unlucky.
 
I was born with a spontaneous mutation (healthy parents) which lead to a few life-long disabilities. The complications from this means that I'll never be able to have family / kids. Also, it's me who ends up with the £12k job while my sister and friends all get £37k jobs (I'm not making these figures up). On the plus side, I've had an excellent upbringing although I still feel that I got dealt a pretty poor hand in life. I'll certainly be the last person with my family surname. I know I could have been a lot worse off if I was born in a 3rd world country but I'm comparing myself with my peers.
 
dowie said:
'luck' isn't a quality you can posses - just because you've perceived that you've been unlucky in the past doesn't infer that you'll be unlucky in the future.

In a random, independent event, with set odds, you've got the same chance of success/failure as anyone else regardless of your perceived luckiness/unluckiness in prior events.

So yes some people might well be 'unlucky' most of their lives in so far that they've tended to get more negative results from random events - though the perception that you've been unlucky so far is irrelevant and can't be used to predict that you'll be unlucky in future nor that you posses any quality that naturally makes you lucky or unlucky.

What I'm trying to say is that you can experience being lucky or being unlucky as a result of a event that is down to chance- you can't posses a quality that makes you more likely to be lucky/unlucky.
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Sure but you can guess what you are. If you've been on the positive side of random event most of your life and about to die you can safely say, you've been lucky ( for the sake of some people who do not seem to like that word and give it spiritual or supernatural attributes substitute "lucky" for "having positive outcome against more probable event of a negative outcome")
It's not about possessing it, it's about reflecting of what how random chance treated you during you life so far.
 
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