In which aspect of life do you think little bit of luck would have made a lot of difference?

I’m not a great believer in luck. I think we make our own luck, and beyond initially meeting someone that potentially might be a future lover/friend etc., I don’t think luck has any bearing on whether you have a successful relationship. If you rely on luck, you’re not taking responsibility and owning the essential part you, your attitude and behaviours play in a relationship’s success.

Same really goes with work and any other part of life. Sure, we might be lucky and win some money, but beyond that, how wonderful our life is, comes down to us. Not luck.

Not having a chronic health problem since my 20’s. It would have been a huge huge difference.

^^ I agree it will be dependent on what we do. But what about others? You can’t control their behaviour, can you? Luck part comes in picture for that scenario. You may love someone giving your 100% but what if that person decided to cheat on you. What would you call it then?

Probably everything. Even one’s attitude to the question is down to an immeasurable chain of events and experiences that one has essentially no control over.

We do not have complete information of the universe. It’s typically the most immediate and deterministic outcomes that be predicted with any degree of certainty.

When it comes to life choices, we’re faced with so many variables that it’s often a shot in the dark. A decision that is initially bad can have positive consequences in the future—or vice versa.

There is very little we actually control. And then even the person we do become is a result of biological and environmental variables acting on each other.

We can’t control what other people do. I don’t see that as luck. We choose our path in life. We choose who to engage with. Sometimes those choices are right, sometimes they are not. My marriage isn’t successful because of luck. It’s a success because we both committed to a person we felt was right for us and we work at it. We value each other. It has nothing to do with luck.

And if a person decides to cheat on you, that’s not luck (or bad luck). That’s us committing to someone who doesn’t value us as much as we value them. Perhaps them cheating on us has something to do with how we’ve behaved or perhaps we have been denying the problems that were in a relationship or that the person was never right for us. Certainly, we can’t control how other people treat us or their behavior, but we make choices. We have control over how we react and how their behavior affects us.

@Earthbound_Misfit “Sometimes those choices are right, sometimes they are not.”

In other words: luck.

A wrong choice isn’t about luck. Perhaps when you make a choice, you just stick a pin in a board, but I evaluate my options, potential benefits, and pitfalls and then I make a decision. I have control over the choice I make. And when things go wrong, I could just say ‘well that was bad luck’, but the reality is there were probably clues that pointed to that eventual outcome that I have missed or ignored. And I always have a choice about how I react. A bad outcome is more likely due to my poor interpretation of the facts, or a failure to take into account the various elements connected to that choice, or my denial of what was actually in front of me.

Beyond the fortune of being born white and in a Western country [edit] or to wealthy parents, I don’t live my life based on ‘luck’. I think it’s dangerous to consider the progress of our life as being driven by luck. That negates our own free will and our own input in our successes and our failures. We won’t learn much if we keep saying ‘well that was just bad luck’ when something goes wrong.

Conception.

It has made a lot of difference. I consider myself one of the luckiest sonzabitches on earth. I count my blessings almost every day.

I got lucky with my parents and a couple of mentors, but otherwise, in my adult life, relationships have nothing to do with luck. I hunt out those whom I want to have relationships with. You win some and you lose some. I cast off anyone I don’t want to have anything to do with. Fast.

It’s a good recipe. Be agressive and pro active. You have a limited amount of time here and nobody can say with absolute certanty that you will ever get another crack at this—and you don’t know what is next. It could be nothing or it could be one particular hell made just for you. You better spend the time here with people who do you good and appreciate you. Otherwise, you’re wasting a lot of valuable time. Quality time. And moping and whining about the deck you were dealt instead of actually taking life by balls and running with it, is wasting time.

If I could win the lotto, life would be much better. Money might not buy happiness, but it sure’s hell buys everything else. A life with no money worries would be bliss.

Romance – the timing sucked. A couple of months different and I would have /. could have married the right person.

The genetic lottery, for sure.

You said relationships, and I am in agreement. More specifically, people around you who are in authority, being understanding and sensitive to the fact that sometimes you make a mistake, and realize it to be a mistake, and you don’t need to be disciplined; you won’t do that again.

Not wishing to sound paranoid, but most nights I go to bed feeling lucky that nobody I love or care about was killed or injured that day by some shallow, thoughtless nitwit who texts while driving, drag-races on public roads, idiotically fires a weapon in the air, goes 100 MPH down the turnpike….you name it…..

Around here a few years ago, some 12-year-old boy was just standing in his driveway watching New Year’s Eve fireworks with his family. From out of nowhere comes a bullet which hits him in the head, killing him instantly.

It was determined that some jackass from perhaps two miles away fired a weapon into the air at midnight, and that was it for the poor kid. Nobody ever found out who the jackass was…..but the jackass certainly knows.

Many people live in fear of what some armed terrorist or ISIS might do, when it is FAR more likely that some stupid person is going to get you….or someone you love.

So, yeah, I think we should all be grateful for unexpected good fortune which happens to come our way, but also thankful for the BAD luck which did not.