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  • Luck

  • What is luck?

  • Luck is success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.

  • So luck can be either positive or negative.

  • Then, to be lucky, means to have your outcomes governed by chance and not choice, right?

  • Not exactly

  • Lucky is having, bringing or resulting from good luck. The success half of luck. And the reverse:

  • The failure half of luck: bad luck, is to be unlucky.

  • Yeah, you follow?

  • Me neither

  • I don't understand how this word's adjective form became some sort of Yin and Yang situation.

  • Like if you're hairy,

  • then, you possess lots of hair.

  • Hair is a constant.

  • There's no good hair or bad hair, and if you don't have hair, you're not unhairy.

  • You're bald.

  • To wish someone good luck, is to express your wish for their success. Then, why not just say I wish you success?

  • Because to wish luck on someone, is to remind them the aspect of chance. A chance to fail or succeed.

  • It's like if you're about to take your final exam and your friend went: "Hey. Don't worry, man"

  • "You're either gonna fail or pass this."

  • Oh, thanks.

  • I was hoping those were the only two possible outcomes.

  • What else was gonna happen, Jim?

  • Right before I finished the test, I'd grow a second nose out of my elbow and sneeze confetti out of it? [sarcasm]

  • Come on!

  • Maybe if they were at a talent show, and you wen: "Hey, man. you're ready for this good luck on flipping that coin."

  • Thanks, I hope it lands on heads.

  • Then, I feel that would make more sense.

  • A couple of months ago....

  • I posted a picture of my food on Instagram.

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  • And someone commented: Ah man, lucky.

  • To which I thought,

  • Wait a minute. I did not obtain this dish out of luck.

  • I did not stumble into this restaurants front doors and food appeared in front of me without my influence.

  • I chose to go to this restaurant shout out to: Donburi on Markham.

  • And I selected this specific item from the menu.

  • Was it luck that caused the owners and chefs to put it on the menu?

  • No.

  • I'm sure they didn't go: "Oh, whoops"

  • "I guess it's on the menu now. How fortunate of you, may I take your order"

  • Actually, I got many comments, that it was bad luck for me to leave my chopsticks in my rice because in Japanese culture sticking your

  • Chopsticks upright in your rice is how it's offered to the spirit of the dead at their deathbed or photograph.

  • I don't mean to undermine Japanese culture, and I know that's just a glorified way to say 'no offense but'.

  • But I'm neither dead nor a photograph. And if a spirit was drooling over my spicy salmon don,

  • I'd be more than happy to share because it's a lot of food and sometimes

  • I-I can't finish on my own. I mean, I guess it was lucky that the restaurant was open at the time [that] I was hungry.

  • It was lucky that I didn't live too far from the restaurant.

  • It was lucky that my parents chose the Toronto area to live in and raise me here.

  • Then, that means, I was lucky that I was simply born because I guess I can't be lucky to have been able to enjoy that

  • don if I didn't exist.

  • But I know that's not what they meant.

  • The state of being lucky or fortunate,

  • isn't even consistent. It's dependent on perspective and who's saying it. Like if, Billie got sick and couldn't go to work

  • I'd be like: "wow man. That's pretty unlucky"

  • but to Billie who just got a Nintendo switch for Christmas

  • He gets to stay home and play games all day, but I guess he's still sick

  • and that's unfortunate so actually it's both lucky and unlucky.

  • depending on how much you weigh being able to play video games.

  • I guess you could have just lied and pretended to be sick. I don't know it's not the best example, but you get it.

  • I hope.

  • If we wish to believe we are in control of our lives and can mold our own paths

  • Then why remind ourselves of the constant possibility of failing to achieve that?

  • Sorry, I just finished watching West World

  • And I've been having a lot of existential thoughts. Great show! I highly recommend you watch it,

  • if you don't mind some violence and nudity.

  • Of course, there are some aspects of our lives that are out of our control and are up to chance and that

  • is what luck is.

  • An outcome not determined by our actions.

  • But wishing someone good luck is kind of redundant because there are all sorts of possible outcomes in our lives

  • caused by factors that we cannot control. If the roads are icy and my friend said 'good luck driving home'

  • I'd be like: "thanks, but well

  • I still need that luck on an non-icy day as well, because

  • There's always a chance some drunk asshole might T-bone me; regardless of the road conditions."

  • Even telling someone to be safe

  • It's a nice and endearing expression, but kind of unnecessary. I say to my loved ones

  • And I know it doesn't make sense

  • Of course you're gonna try and be safe to the best of your ability the factors that put you in danger

  • Or cause you harm are most likely out of your control. Like, telling me to be safe on my flight is a nice gesture

  • But realistically, my safety is in the hands of the pilot and the weather. Two entities that I do not have an influence on.

  • So in those cases, good luck is actually what I need.

  • So, what we can agree upon is that our luck, our chances are

  • Determined by another entity's success or failure.

  • Someone fails to show up for their dinner reservation therefore my party and I get to obtain their seats, instead of waiting twenty more minutes.

  • Lucky

  • Someone successfully purchases the last copy of that one game that I particularly wanted a hard copy of.

  • Unlucky

  • Unless you've willingly involved yourself in a game of chance and RNG, luck is not a thing you want wished upon yourself.

  • It's all skill, baby

  • Despite all this, I still say good luck to people. The dissected meaning of the word doesn't make sense to me

  • But I just don't have something else that's not as much of a mouthful as I wish you success

  • Hmm, maybe we can shorten it a bit?

  • Much like how 'goodbye' became a contraction of 'God be with thee' as a form of salutation in parting.

  • Okay, so let's see here.

  • "I wish you success"?

  • We can just take out the I.

  • "Wish you success"?

  • "You success"?

  • "You succ"?

  • You succ?

  • *tsk tsk*

  • I like it.

  • So with the end of 2017 and the new upcoming year, my dear audience: 'you succ'

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