Luck.

Does it exist?  Is luck real?

Or is everything going according to some great predetermined master plan.  Has it all been mapped out with some predestination of the universe, or written in a Golden Book somewhere, scribed in Golden Letters?

People seem to believe in luck, or lack there of.  So many take heed on Friday the 13th, sidestep a ladder on the sidewalk, or the black cat walking.

The good luck side of it is just as strong.  Take Las Vegas for example.  Now the people who OWN Las Vegas bank on the odds.  But the people GOING to Las Vegas are putting their belief in Good-Luckiness.  Same with the Lottery.  The folk’s popping the balls from the hopper are well-aware of the probability ratio. The one’s holding tickets have their faith in good luck.

But is it real?

I can’t say for sure.  I tend to believe it is true.  I mean, some people “seem” luckier than others.  Yet, could it be that mapped out plan just taking its course?  It complicates things either way.

Stephen Hawking once noted, “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

See what I mean…?  But it gets even stickier… I’ll tell you.

Chris Pine said…. “I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.”

Either way.   The answer is this.  In our very limited human brains, we will probably never know one way or the other.  Has our life been determined since the Big-Bang-Kaboomed?    What if we find a penny face up on the sidewalk… or step on a crack while we are strolling down that same sidewalk…. is it going to figure into the way the rest of the day plays out?

I couldn’t say for sure.

I do know this.  Most of the time… when someone asks you to “Wish Them Luck”… they are preparing to take an unnecessary risk.  Like going over the Niagara Falls in a barrel.  Or jumping from a plane with a parachute on.

Here is the thing though….There is a lot to be said for good old common sense.  A good solid decision based on former experience or knowledge.    Maybe we have been asking for the wrong thing… all along?  Perhaps instead of saying… “Wish me luck.” …. we should say… “Wish me Good Sense.”