do we make our own luck, or are some people just born more lucky than others?
2006-11-01 00:35:55 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I believe with all my heart that some people are just born lucky.
I have noticed that people who mean no good to anyone are the winners in life and those that sacrifice for others are total losers
2006-11-01 01:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by Cherry Berry 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The thoughts you think and the beliefs you have. These all contain energy and this energy is what creates your reality. So the reason for some people being luckier than others, is that the 'believe themselves lucky.' Look at your beliefs about luck. If they are negative, change them to positive ones and start thinking them instead. The more you repeat them, the more they will become beliefs. They will begin creating your reality along new lines, and you will find yourself becoming more lucky.
There is an old saying that OPPORTUNITIES ARISE WHEN YOU OPEN UP YOUR THOUGHTS. This is what will happen to you. More and more often, you will be placed in the right place, at the right time, engaged in the right activity. Chance meetings and fortuitous events will help you in your life's path. You will also become more adept at turning opportunities to your advantage.
Check the beliefs you hold about luck - you really Do make your own, and it stems from optimistic and positive thinking.
2006-11-01 05:31:32 · answer #2 · answered by The Global Geezer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Intrigue is the name of the thing that oozes out of questions like this. This is the fact that some people are luckier than the rest - some have, or at least seem to have, almost everything, an awful lot of everything, whereas many others have virtually nothing and free troubles for life. Why are there injustice, inequality, and this inconsideration in nature? Why everyone is not born equal to have equal beginning in his or her life? Questions like these rattle our minds and we find no answer to them. Then we ask - is God just? Or, is there any God, or goodness, in the world? This happens to all of us at one time or another. But the governing principle of our existence seems to be totally indifferent to human condition. As if it is entirely up to us. Whether we are capable or not, we have to deal with life and the things of life ourselves most studiously and earnestly without complaining in a state of total acceptance.
If that is what it is then we can conclude either of these two things: that there is no divine justice or principle in the world things happen entirely randomly; or, that there are values to life higher than what can make physical sense to us, or can make us happy or sad. We can for example see people whom we understand to be lucky, but are they really luck, what do they thing? I have seen people whom others call lucky very unhappy inside.
What is essential to us is that we are alone. If we are distinctive people than we are more alone than if we were like many other people around us. If a person is rich than who is he or she? That he or she could easily have been any other person. But what I am essentially I cannot be someone else, or someone else cannot be me. This is unique and special - I might not be lucky but I am special in my own right. If being special and unique means nothing substantial than I would not have asked these questions at the first place. Luck is what good we can see in other people’s lives, and it is already luck to be myself.
2006-11-02 01:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is luck?
The thing that we commonly call 'luck' is a mixture of circumstance and coincidence. Being somewhere or doing something at exactly the right time, in other words.
I'm a writer. Back in 1980 I submitted my first children's novel to a publisher. It 'happened' to be exactly what they were looking for at the time. Just 'lucky', I guess!
I went on to write many more books. But just think: if I'd approached a different publisher I could be the 'unluckiest' would-be author that never got a book in print!
2006-11-01 01:35:01 · answer #4 · answered by Songbird 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are they really how well do you know this for certain?
Is it a matter of perception?
Personally i know of two people, inherited wealth, never had to work. Lucky?
Had a house with no mortgage, lucky?
Both were bored? Lucky?
Both got into drinking, as in serious all day drinking. Lucky?
One is dead. Lucky?
One is still the same.
Look at how lucky you are and don't worry to much about how luck affects others.
2006-11-01 08:59:58 · answer #5 · answered by sotu 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a scam, but not an especially intelligent one, though some are more convincing than others. Your first clue should be those email addresses. Woolwich bank do not use free yahoo webmail addresses, and DHL don't use similiar suspicious email addresses either. And the day Tony Blair wants to give me a personal letter of congratulations on a lottery win is the day that Satan will be going to work on skis. I might have been more inclined to believe them if it had said that Tony Blair wants to contact you with regard to donating some of my winnings to the Labour party and discussing my elevation to the House of Lords in return for my large donation!! The only point of these ficticious lotteries is to get you to send them your personal ID (passport, birth certificate, NI number, bank details) and arrange to steal them. Invariably they also demand that potential "winners" pay some kind of "administration fee". Naturally, there are is no lottery, no winners and no hope of you ever getting anything, especially if you have never even bought a ticket. You have to be in it to win it. Do not even email these (usually Nigerian) characters. Press the delete button.
2016-03-28 03:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
people get lucky only when they'd solve their problems with long term solutions. Its as if they don't have bad luck at all because almost all precautions are observed and maintained before acting. Its just a matter of excellent planning!
2006-11-01 00:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by heny0 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the words of Rod Stewart; "Some guys have all the luck".
That song is for me as i get none. But at least i'm not dying of AIDS or hunger or suffering from Psychosis so the card i was dealt can't be all that bad.
2006-11-01 00:49:29 · answer #8 · answered by bluenose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people are Lovable -- some people are Not Lovable.
Lovable ones have all the luck -- a gift (and a curse).
2006-11-01 04:22:14 · answer #9 · answered by Iain 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has luck, but it's the situation at hand that is the difference. On Hee Haw~if weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all...doom despair and agony on me........showing my age..LOL
2006-11-01 00:45:48 · answer #10 · answered by All 4 JR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋