1. Simply stated, luck is good fortune. It brings success. Where luck comes from, exactly, is unknown. Luck is also considered to be chance. If something happens to someone by chance, and that something is a good thing, that is luck. It is also looked at as one's overall circumstances or conditions in life. Luck can be viewed as something that happens randomly, or something that we can bring upon ourselves.
2. Luck appears in several ways. For instance, if someone were to win a game the first time they had ever played it, the other players would blame it on the fact that they had beginner's luck. With sheer dumb luck, something happens accidentally and not on purpose (but ends with a good result). When Harry Potter and Ron Weasley knock out a troll by themselves in their first year, Professor McGonagall says it was because of sheer dumb luck. Luck can also be used as more of an adjective, as in happy-go-lucky, describing someone who is carefree and optimistic. Fortunately, for people like me, there is the luck of the Irish. People of Irish heritage will be lucky in their endeavors. Unfortunately, there is also bad luck. This is when everything decides not to go your way.
3. I love lucky days. I mean, who doesn't like things to turn out in their favor? Especially when your chances seemed really low to begin with? I remember towards the end of the summer, I was hanging out with my friends Jessie and Maddy in the afternoon. We wanted our chill sesh to continue through the night, but they both had to work. Poop. I sat at home feeling lonely. Kaylee and Kasey, my neighbors/BFFLs, were also busy. *buzz buzz* My phone got a text-Jessie: "Hey! Rush Creek was slow, so they don't need me. Still wanna hang?" "Heck yes!" I respond. Jess makes her way on over when I get another text-Maddy: "I got off work early!" "No way! Come over, Jess is too!" YES. A night of Emily listening to music and watching YouTube vids by herself turns into a friend-hang-sesh with pretzels and nutella. In other words: Luck at its finest.
4. Inside The Ralph hockey stadium at the University of North Dakota, a quote on the wall says, "I find the harder I work, the luckier I get." This can be seen in many different ways and through many different people. The students who study and work diligently earn the cliche "straight-A-student" title. Athletes who train, condition and push themselves to the highest level are the varsity-starters and even professional sports players. Both of these scenarios result in favorable outcomes, which is what luck is supposed to bring you to.
5. Some see luck as an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome. In this sense, luck is just sprung upon us randomly, we do not control it. Luck is chance. Others, however, like the anonymous quote above from UND, believe that we can create luck ourselves. These favorable outcomes are a result of the time and energy we put forth into achieving them. Luck always ends in good fortune, but the rest of the exact idea of luck can be your own philosophy.
6. Your math teacher makes the two hardest problems on the test extra credit. That English assignment you didn't do? Your teacher didn't even check it. The kid at your lunch table has extra cookies from his APUSH dinner party, and you get one. Whatever the scenario may be, your conscience goes YES! Or maybe you even stand up and exclaim "YES!" to everyone around you. You may begin to wonder if you're in a dream because everything is going your way when you least expect it to. You feel cheerful and optimistic. You own the world.
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