Are You Lucky?

[Mike Wooldridge]

Are You A Lucky Person?

[Mike Wooldridge]

Do you think there is good luck or is good luck "when opportunity meets preparation?"

[Marg Shurtliff]

As a preteen or early teen I was playing croquet with a cousin and her husband in Michigan and he won . I said " Oh , you're just lucky " and was subjected to well over a half hour lecture on there being no such thing as luck ! I have always been careful with that word ever since .

[Katelynn Scott]

I based my answer on the fact that I've never won a "door prize" at a party or conference. How do those people actually manage to win those things? I would LOVE to have a free t-shirt or tote bag...

[John Kennedy]

Stern lectures on the subject to the contrary notwithstanding (it will be role of the gentle reader to supply punctuation to that), if it wasn't for 'bad' some people wouldn't have none at all.

[Marg Shurtliff]

I based my answer on the fact that I've never won a "door prize" at a party or conference. How do those people actually manage to win those things? I would LOVE to have a free t-shirt or tote bag...

When I was 16 our youth group went on a visit to a local bakery - Morrison-Lamothe 's . We wrote our names on a piece of paper and they were placed in a hat for a drawing and I won ! It was a cake with "Welcome to Morrison-Lamothe's on a plaque " . Think that's the only time I won a prize . Couldn't wear that ! lol . Did get my picture taken with my cake before we ate it .

[Jon Bemis]

I don't consider myself lucky, just blessed. :-)

[David Graham]

I don't consider myself lucky, just blessed. :-)

Thanks Jon, me too..... very blessed indeed.

Blessings,
Dave

[Wilson Deaton]

I said " Oh , you're just lucky " and was subjected to well over a half hour lecture on there being no such thing as luck !

Strictly speaking, this should depend on whether one sees luck as a cause or as a descriptor.

Cause: To believe that some mystical force is causing good things to happen is the kind of belief that gets one lectured...

Descriptor: Statistically (due to randomness?), someone is going to win door prizes and avoid landing Boardwalk more than others... We can use the label "lucky" to describe those persons.

So it's OK for me to say you are lucky if I mean that you are a statiscial anomaly with regards to good things happening but its rather pagan of me to say you are lucky if I mean a mysterious force is causing good things to happen to you.

Wilson

[Billy Cox]

I answered 'yes' in the sense that I have privileges, freedoms and comforts that many people do not have. At the same time, I'm a bit uncomfortable calling myself lucky or blessed because both of them infer causation based only on circumstantial evidence. It seems like the 'lucky' designation is more appropriate for describing someone else, but it's vain to use the term in reference to oneself.

[Diane Likens]

Who said this:

"The harder I work the luckier I get."

Don't remember where it came from, but it's so true.

[Gene Schandorff]

I won a door-prize once. A local realtor whose parents attended the church I was pastoring asked me to pray the invocation at the annual, very formal "Board of Realtors" dinner. I was seated at the head table. When the "drawings" began i won two bottles of wine. You tell me if I was lucky or not.

[Ian Gentles]

Arnold Palmer the great golfer said once, "The more i practice the luckier i get", so guess our endevours make our own luck, if there is such a thing as luck?