Luck and Lucky

In my mind, the word luck relates to fortune, specifically, good fortune. Someone with a lot of luck, a lucky person is full of good fortune. Randomly, good things will happen to them. Luck is not something that you can earn or gain, it just happens. People who are lucky just are that way. They might find money on the ground or a teacher might not check the homework the day that they forgot to do it. Luck is intangible; it is not something that can necessarily be measured either. Some people are lucky and others are not, but that can change. It is not a permanent thing either. It simply is what it is.

I chose the word luck because, honestly it interests me. Luck is something that cannot be described very easily. It had no definite definition. It means something different to every person. I am interested in where it came from and where the concept came from. How did the idea or concept of luck even come to be? It seems to be so different from most ideas. What brought about the need to describe luck? It is such a simple idea but it can be so complex because of the different associations people have with it.

For instance, I associate luck with the ability to be completely clueless to the answer to a question and then get the answer right by simply guessing without any knowledge or thought in the process. One instance of this would be luck. A person who can always guess the right answer would be considered luck in my book. Luck is most definitely a positive thing and something everyone would love to have. However, you cannot work toward luck, it is impossible. Pure chance is all luck really is.