Luck or something like it...

OK, so i had an awesome day today, and it made me think a little bit, as it always does... Lately my luck has been pretty shitty, many deaths of people i knew, and friends/ family of people i knew, forgetting important things, things going wrong at work, my phone stuffing up, then receiving friends phone, which i lost when i fell asleep on the train, then having my laptop short circuit and non operational, going back to centrelink 5 times- different branches, in two months to try and sort out my payments, only to discover that they had neglected to inform me of things every time i went back, waking up to realise that the rain has prevented me from washing my clothes when i already down to my scraps, with nothing to wear, and having two assessment tasks which i did on the day it was due in a manic state, due to not having said laptop to perform such tasks!

And then, today was an exceptional turn around, no idea how it happened. I received a high distinction on one assignment and a credit on another test i swore i was going to fail, my friends b'day present, which i have been waiting on for a while has arrived, my new sim card arrived, i finally got my money from centrelink, which has been paid into my centrelink account, my exchange application is nearly done, i got a nice compliment from a stranger on the train, a good Samaritan ran after me when getting off the bus to hand me back my chocolate box when i accidentally forgot it on there, reuniting with an old friend, even though it wasn't his stop and i had an excellent group study today which consequently has led me to be well informed for my exam on Friday.

All of these events seriously made me think, i have had a serious run of bad luck for the past few months, and in one day it has all caught up to me. How is this even possible? After all where exactly does luck come from?

For those of you who believe our lives are predetermined, how does luck become a factor? And if you do believe that someone or something determines how our life is played out, why do we still wish each other good luck before an exam.

Is this the same with people who believe in fate? If the concept of fate is that if it happens it was mean to happen, not necessarily that it was predetermined; does it mean that luck has a role in what we are going to experience? Is it in our fates to be lucky or is it lucky to have a good fate?

For those of us who believe luck decides how everything plays out, and we can affect that luck, how do we know to affect it for the better? Or is it that luck is predetermined and we wont know how lucky/ unlucky we have been until we face the situation or look back on it?

All of these questions have been spiralling around all evening, but the most interesting thought i had for a while was about the concept of luck being a flow of energy like anything else. This means that it can neither be created nor destroyed, but relies on the transfer of said energy to be used. This meaning that we can essentially "borrow" luck and it may change form or transfer from person to person when needed.

I like to think that this theory is true, i mean, how could it otherwise be explained that we have luck one minute and none the next?

If it were an energy transfer, if i did borrow luck today, it also makes me wonder who in the world today had a really bad day or a collection of really bad days that was offered up in order for me to have such good luck.

I know this may be senseless rambling, but honestly, its luck that I'm awake writing this blog at all, or is it?...


Thanks for listening. Peace. :)