Was it luck?

I often say to myself and everyone around me how luck is entirely made up and that luck cannot be real. That everything we do is entirely based on and accounted for by our actions and behaviours. Every decision we make has some form of an impact on the world around us and that is what leads to every new thing we see in our lives. Simplifying life to the point where we cannot blame anything outside of ourselves for the condition we are in and the life that we live. It also entirely takes out any impact or external force in terms of a higher being like a god. Yet when I think about it deeply it is very different. I cannot recount every event in my life as something I have done. Possibly I am not thinking hard enough but if I trip on stone kicked on by someone else and fall, how did that start with being my own fault?

An explanation may be a very deep set of random cause-and-effect actions that led to me but then would not everything that happens to everyone’s lives be attributed to everyone else? Eventually, it would yet again erase the idea that it would as all my fault since technically everybody is to blame. Since everybody’s actions had a certain level of impact on everything, no one can be held accountable for anything. That’s where I think luck comes in, the small aspects that happen entirely out of pure chance that create openings for you. Those opportunities that are made can be capitalised on and turned into something so massive it seems as if it all happened through what you did, yet without the luck of the opening it would not have the opportunity to grow at all.

In the same way when we lose it may not be entirely our fault as well, possibly that day the weather was bad and you began the day in a bad mood, so you ended up doing worse in your competition. You might think it was your own self being distracted yet, and it was. I really thought that I was going to treat both sides of the coin equally, yet I knew that that would be unfair and entirely useless. So here it would make more sense if we attributed when we won to luck since it makes us more humble and attributes our loss to ourselves as it makes us more focussed. In that way, we can never end up losing, and when we do it only makes us better prepared for next time.

How does that help us? It makes winning seem easier than it is, so we actually try and it makes losing seem so controllable that we don’t fear it anymore.