Luck vs. Free Will

Is there such a thing as luck? I know a person can have a string of lucky or unlucky happenings. Take me for instance. I seemed to have an unlucky string of happenings not long ago. It seems to me that it all started when I backed a Creighton van into a tree. Who does that? The next unlucky thing was my return from my vacation to Montana. I had a great time. All except for the fact that I was supposed to return 2 days earlier than I did. My flight was delayed, cancelled, and then delayed again! Then it seems that I transferred my bad luck to my friend who flew out the very day I flew in. It would have been ok had I not seen him. It may have transferred when on the way to the airport he stopped by and I handed him his camera which he had let me borrow. So then his flight was delayed. I probably wouldn’t have thought much about it except another friend from Montana called me and said that I can’t see him any more (he was joking of course but here is why he said that). I stayed at his house when I was over there and as soon as I left his living room ceiling collapsed. On top of that he told me that on the way home from my wedding last summer his car broke down. He ended up having to buy a new car.

These events lead me to ponder the question: Is there such thing as luck? And I mean REAL good or bad luck. Can someone be a lucky or unlucky person or is it like I said above? Just a string of lucky or unlucky happenings. Even though I had that string of seemingly unlucky happenings I know the reason I thought of it as luck is just because they all happened in a short period of time. If I really thought about it, I probably had just as many lucky happenings during that time.

But debating whether I am lucky or unlucky is really not the reason for this blog. I’m thinking more along the lines of Luck vs. Free Will. Is it our luck that determines the path of our lives? Is it our choices made by free will? Or is it more complex than that?

To be continued next blog…