Is luck determined by the Law of Averages combined with randomization? Perhaps. However, people influence their own luck to a great extent by paying attention to preparing themselves for handling crisis and ability to make good choices.
My life experience, and as a psychotherapist for five decades, finds me somewhat at odds with the Wikopedia definition. I believe that luck, opportunity and preparation are partners (an oft quoted thought by many people).
Life is a gamble in which the house does not maintain ultimate control. Bad luck just might be a bill failing in the Legislature, such as a refusal for insurance to pay for an abortion when the medical term for a 'miscarriage' is abortion and might be totally necessary for a fetus who has died in utero before the time for Nature's delivery schedule. Non-medical political commentator, Chris Matthews, kept harping on this point tonight on MSNBC. He believes the government should take this position to pass the Health Insurance package. Would it not be a matter of bad luck to allow ignorant people to make life/death plans the law for others?
Luck to most people is not determined by Fate, though perhaps at times by chance. A God probably does not sit in the sky, in Heaven, standing on clouds, picking petals off daisies to decide who gets the good or bad luck. However, those who take care of their bodies by not abusing them, prepare themselves to earn a living, do not live on a financial edge unnecessarily, probably live with less stress...a good harbinger for a longer and happier life.
Given the song from Guys and Dolls, Luck be a Lady, Tonight, we might assume good luck is generally viewed to be feminine while bad luck remains masculine. Sounds about right considering what the men who have ruled the world have doled out to the rest of us.
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