Luck is a word many people often use if they are trying to be modest, but it is also widely thrown around when people out do their expectations, and sometimes when failures hit us in unexplainable circumstances we blame the lack of it. I see people quoting luck all the time, "she had luck, I didn't, that is why I failed", "man I can't believe I got the job, I have to thank my lucky starts".
But do you realise that the concept of luck takes away the credit entirely from you, i.e it was not because of your hardwork or presence of mind or common sense or even sheer cunningness for the matter but some undefinable random force, so the next time when the same situation presents itself, "you can't confidently say that I have faced and surpassed the situation before so I believe I have the necessary skills and experience to face it again", but all you can say is luck has to favour me again.
Similarly in case of a negative situation there is a possibility that you can assess the previous situation come to a conclusion of all that led to your defeat, like lack of preparation, flaw in execution, bad external factors..... and you could prepare yourself in such a way that you could somehow bypass them, sometimes even presume all the probable factors (outside) that could play a role in that particular senario, and try to be ready for them, hence remarkably decreasing the chance of failing again, giving you actual hope. Saying I failed beautiful of lack of luck would mean I have no control over my circumstances, and I can never never really rely on me.
I would definitely feel safer if my sucess or failure depended on me, my ability, my skillset rather than some magical probality wouldn't you?. Luck if somehow miraculously does exist, is an entity that is best left ignored, as it gives you no actual hope, or reason.
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