luck

[rugeleyboy]

is luck.....( whether it be bad or good luck) something we are born with or something we subconsiously convince ourselves we have?

[angel-cake]

hello ruge!

I believe you can put yourself in positive frame of mind and make good luck. some people are just negative and only notice bad luck, not the good things that happen.

x

[lady_p_gold]

Well I have always thought I have a lucky star and things always happen in amazing ways for me ... whether they happen because I have that frame of mind, or whether I am just lucky .. not sure .

[mimififi]

harry potter tricks his friend Ron into believing that he has drank a luck charm. This in turn makes him play the best quidditch he has ever played and also overcom his stage fright on the pitch. When it is revealed he has not had the luck potion at all, he can't compute the events of the day. Even the fair weather is attributed to the 'luck'.

Luck is therefore a state of mind. It is also something that people who do not possess any religious faith of any type use in order to understand why sometimes things go well and sometimes various things hit the proverbial fan.

It is a figment of our imagination, non-tangible, a perception. We can therefore make our own luck.

[funkymoped]

hiya RB.

i think luck is man made in some respects....

i dont think Mr Windows (bill gates) was lucky when he became one of the richest people ever to have lived..

[simsfreq]

I think it's about having a positive attitude - people who are depressed, everything keeps going wrong fr them, while successful people attract more success.

[Suzyboo]

err.. sorry to break it to you mimififi but harry and ron aren't real. Characters in a novel and their antics may illustrate the authors beliefs on the matter but are hardly proof!

[Cobra2]

I was born unlucky and Im sick of it.

My life keeps getting knocked down and I have to fight my way back up.

They say luck evens up over life, so those lucky early on are unlucky later in life and vice versa.

Bring on my good luck coz I aint seen it.

[mimififi]

suzyboo: i wasn't actually presenting Ron and Harry as factual characters, I'm not even a Potter fan.

However, I am a literary genius, obviously, and was presenting these characters as a commentary on the human perceptions of 'luck'. Characters in fictitious books are often based upon real life qualities exhibited in the human race and are anthropological to whatever extent, EVEN if those characters are created by a mediocre, unimaginative writer such as the lesser spotted JKR, they can be endorsed as commentators none-the-less.

Also, to keep in essence with the question, when discussing a fictitious theme, such as luck (which is no more real than the great dumbledore himself), I chose to use a fictitious situation, a kind of extending analogy if you like. Almost a hypothesis; tag "Imagine someone made you believe you had drank a luck charm potion...how would that change you perception of your day?" onto the original answer.

with love,
mimi
:-)