Luck And Fears- Will L

Okay, sorry but I forgot to post last week, so I'm going to post about this topic and last week's.
First, I am honestly afraid of spiders. Really, I cannot stand them. I don't have arachnophobia, but, man I hate them. Also loneliness.

Secondly, I kind of believe in luck, but not superstition. In fact, I make fun of superstition a lot. But luck, I don't know. If you've been playing, say tennis, for a long time, and you bring a friend who has never played before and he beats you, it could be his talent. But if he loses to somebody else who is about your skill, something's wrong. So yeah, I believe in luck, but not superstition.

lucky ducky

so yeah i believe in luck but not so much superstitions. why? because everyone knows luck is real. there would be no gambling if there was no luck! everyone would just win nothing if there was no luck!! but i guess thats bad luck huh? well i do believe in karma though... don't you knotice that people who do bad things end up being worse off than people who do good things? for example artist grrl ws getting picked on by this mean lady and the mean lady got in a car accident!! karma beotch!!!!

Lucky, yeah right

In my opinion luck is something used to describe why things happened before science had really evolved, like mythology. People wanted to blame things that happen on something else so they blamed the ladder they walked under or the black cat they crossed paths with that same day. I don't think luck really has anything to do with what actually happens. I don't think you can control everything that's happening to you but you do have control over your actions. It's not fair to blame things on cats or inanimate objects. It's not their fault. I think, in a way, someone can be more 'lucky' than someone else but only because they tend to do or recieve better things.

Gettin' Lucky (Oh get your mind out of the gutter.)

I think luck is an interesting idea. The concept that every random decision has meaning, and that one person can have an advantage over others in a random situation - just for being them. It's interesting, but that really doesn't make it true. Or even close to true. Random is random, regardless of who you are, or what the situation is (unless the situation is rigging the "random" outcome.). What's even weirder is how obsessed people get over luck. The artificial high you get when you win, and the "trends" you discover from your winning, fuel a billion-dollar industry known as gambling. So why is luck so appealing?

The answer is that it isn't. Luck only becomes interesting when you apply a penalty/reward to it. Just guessing numbers with the hope that the ones you guessed will fall out of a machine isn't fun - until you give several million dollars to whoever can pull it off. Poker itself is a fun game, but that's because it's a mix of luck AND strategy. Knowing the exact odds of every outcome would give you the best chance to win, but it'd also take all the enjoyment out of it.

The Purlieu of Life

What an interesting topic. I think that people make their own luck, but at the same time, there are things in nature that are working against you, as in "bad luck", and we associate those with certain things, ie a certain shirt, or weekdays. I know that I definetly have certain things that bring me bad luck, and certain weekdays that I can't wait till they're done with, but I try to dig myself out of the rut so to speak. I don't think that we can blame every bad thing in life on bad luck, we need to blame it on ourselves. As to superstitions, I think that what we talked about in AG&R applies here. Myths(Superstitions) were created to explain things at the time, but now, looking back, we've grown as humans, and as a society. We don't need those things to explain luck. I bet, looking back, most of the entries will say something along the lines of" I believe in luck, sort of, but not superstitions, blahblahblah" and, if ou grandchildren were too read that in, like, 80 years or something, they would think that we were ridiculous in believing in luck, like we think that people were ridiculous for believeing in gods, or black cats and broken mirrors.

On a totally different note, how many times can you fail before something has to go right for you? Can you ever be totally happy? How many times can you turn a corner before you make a complete circle, and you're back to where you started?

Luck

Luck is realy confusing for me. I think i have pretty good luck if there is luck thing are bound to either go good or bad so i feel things just happen. I feel luck is not a real thing but some things just dont turn out good for people.

Mama needs a new pair of shoes!!!!!!!!!!!

Well o.k. here's the thing, I sort of believe in luck, but what if nothing good ever happens to you? Then are you considered to be cursed, or just have a dark rain cloud hanging over your head? So I don't look at anything as being lucky, because I believe people make their own luck in life. Things can be looked at half full or half empty.....you know what I mean? You could take a bad situation and look for the good part about it. Hey I broke my leg, sad face, but at least I broke it before I went to summer camp, cuse I could have broken it there and my parents wouldn't be there to help me. So I don't know maybe it's because I don't consider myself to be a very lucky individual, but I know I'm lucky to be where I am right now in life, I have two parent's, a house, food, and good friends. I find myself really happy about all of that, and I couldn't really ask for more.........well except for a new Spanish teacher, I wouldn't mind that so much. Oh and I suck at board games.....except Disney scene it......but maybe that's cuse I play against Kelsey Oliver, and she is a bit slow at shouting out the answers......lol sorry Kelsey. I can't bet either cuse I always some how loose in the end, so I just don't do it lol.


Superstitions are kinda funny, sure I knock on wood, but I do it because hey maybe it works! And I want to cover all my bases. I can't really say "I've never broken a bone in my body" cuse would you look at that! I have twice already so I think I'm good......knock on wood. Oh and if I cross a black cat I would probably end up petting it and going on my merry way without a second thought. Who decided that cats of the black persuasion are bad luck? What do people got against them? I think people made superstitions up so that people would be more aware of what they are doing and possibly to scare them. I'm not sure though. So I'm not an overly superstitious person, but I love the song!!!!!!...........now you are going to go listen to it cuse I got it stuck in ur head. Hahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!....I can be so mean sometimes.