What is bad luck anyways?

Okay we all experienceda "bad luck situation" like failling an exam after studying all night or have a drunk driver crash into our car and WE have to pay the damages. anything like that, but is it really bad luck? i mean..luck doesnt really exist, cause anything can happen to anyone and any time, good or bad. so does the word "luck" really mean anything at all to start off with? cause nothing really lucky, its just life..so bad luck doesnt exist either right? its just...normal life situations?

Luck is our way of explaining the impossible, or improbable
such as,
Narrowly missing getting hit by a car -its like; how is that possible? I came this close...boy am I lucky.
or, How did I hit that baseball? I was sure I was going to miss...I must be lucky.

Luck explains the improbable.

Bad luck is the same, it also explains the improbable but in a more negative fashion.
such as
Damn! My tire blew out; I'm going to be late for work...It must be bad luck.
or, Damn! Out the hundreds of cars in the lot, the bird only shit on mine...my car must be bad luck.


Luck is what we use to answer for improbable events, the events that we will think never or are very unlikely to happen.

Thats what luck means :)

Bad luck..? Well anything could be bad luck, honestly it all depends on what you call bad luck or good luck. People will think they're having an unlucky day if stuff doesnt go right for them or they might call themselvs unlucky if stuff isnt always going their way. Just how you think about it.

What is bad luck? Its punishment.

When I look back on the whole good luck bad luck thing, I think of how many times i've narrowly missed a car, or stop myself from saying something at an all too innapportune time stuff like that. It's then I realize just how much good luck I have. this may not have anything really to do with the topic just something I thought of.

Seems to me that good luck is always something totally improbable (like someone stepped out, and stopped fate.) I think people usually make up bad luck in their own minds by thinking of negative things (kinda the same way we believe in fortune cookies, or astronomical signs. We make these dillusional connections)

Honestly I do believe in good luck, but bad luck I feel is just a figment*sp?* of our imagination. Think about it.

No good luck or bad luck.....Stuff happens.

Definitely agree. Luck is just a little explanation for things happening in a certain fasion, It really is in your mind.
Say you won a lottery, it is not luck, its just guessing the right combination of numbers, but I do believe that by your attitude towards things you can change your so calle "luck".
For instance, if you et pulled over by a police officer, and you just think "fuck, I am so busted", you will be, as on some level you will show your guilt, and if you are cool and positive about the situation, most likely the officer will be nice and let you go.
This is a little hard to explain, try reading "The Luck Factor", interesting book, the author really emphisizes that people who believe they are lucky, are. And those who think they are just pure bad luck, often times are.
Really it all depends how you look at things.

Luck is an easy term, though not existing. Like time, we can't live without time, though time doesn't exist.

Luck is just the way things happen. A bad time is bad luck. Narrowly avoiding a bad time is good luck. Narrowly missing a good time is bad luck. Having a great time is good luck. There's no explanation of what luck really is, but you can use it to describe something.

I think the only thing about luck that requires any type of definition is where do you draw the line on calling it luck? It must be something that could not be controlled by anything but the odds alone.




I'm not saying I don't think karma has anything to do with luck. I think karma is a major factor, just based on experience.

if i didnt have bad luck, id have none at all.......
whats up rick...computer unlock at work, hopefully ill b on here regularly again..

Waddup homeslice?! No joke I just wondered about you like 3 days ago. What luck! lmao

here to stay for a while, if im "LUCKY" haha

Bad luck is an absence of good luck. :screwy: I know, I need a life.

bad luck is the reluctance to accept responsibility.

bad luck is the reluctance to accept responsibility.

I disagree.

I have absolutely no argument or statement planned to back that up, so that's all I have to say.

Good luck is improbbible, such as getting with the hot girl, bad luck is when you find out she had herpies

well, when people don't study and they fail an exam often they say "oh i have such bad luck" no, it's a lack of studying and the unwillingness to accept that they're the cause of the failure.

some people may just not be able to do stuff but i think it's just that people wont accept responsibility.

Bad luck is an absence of good luck.

well, aren't you just the regular comedian...

i agree with mr wiggles on the good luck bad luck thing. i find good luck is ussually minor... like finding a dollar in your pants pocket, rarely are there extremes like winning the lotto, or getting the hot girl. bad luck however is ussally categorized in the more extreme and the lesser the event the better. like snapping off a head bolt in a motor that you have 80 % put back together, backing into the boss's car, getting pulled over because of something minor... and ticketed. many of us can deal with the broken lead, the not having a pen handy when a hot girl needs one. the word "luck" on dictionary.com is this:
The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune
Good fortune or prosperity; success
One's personal fate or lot
and i believe alot of it has to do with odds. a famous man once said, "with every breath the odds of something go further against you" pessimistic? yes... but who here hasnt had a case of the mondays... on wednesday.... and thursday... hell you had it on friday too... it was just a bad week. who here remembers pandora's box from greek mythology? when the box was opened death, disease, pestilence, greed, loathing, rage, ect came out. what is the one thing that was kept in the box? foreboding. luck is our hope going in odds with our own foreboding.

bad luck is when you want to have something other than yourself to blame for things going wrong.

you guys are looking at it all wrong I think. You're acting like everybody who calls something luck is a lazy ass. If we go back to the money in the pants pocket thing, I don't really consider that luck. That's not meaning the odds are against it happening.

I think the odds MUST be against the event in question, in order for it to be called luck. Like let's say you REALLLLYYY need 20 bucks more for a very good reason but you don't have it. Then you change your pants, and BAM! 20$ lies right in that pocket. That's good luck.

Bad luck could be like if you keep something around that you haven't needed in forever, and one day decide to throw it away, then the next day you need it. Or you're driving through a green light and some idiot side swipes you because they weren't paying attention. That's not your fault. Also, if you had left your house 1 minute later it wouldn't have happened. But you can't predict it. That's just bad luck.

That doesn't mean there is this aura of bad luck/good luck around you, it just means that the odds caught up with you. Luck of the draw. That's all it is.

but I agree if somebody says failing a test is bad luck, they're just dumb.

actually i recant how i said "odds" has alot to do with it... because im pretty sure "odds" Inlives are too complex to accurately calculate until after the fact... so its more like chaos theory. i mean its been proven (in chaos theory... and is pretty much the basic concept) that when you start w/ a very easy set of guidelines there will be a range of outcomes that are too astronomical to calculate. however you set a very lengthy set of guidelines and the outcome will simplify (solely because you are eliminating variables w/ each new guideline). but odds is a simpler way of looking at it. rick just said it too you cant predict it.
i think luck is more out of your control, but you can set yourself up for good luck (i know the failing the test is a bullshit way of looking at this but its the only one i can think of) say you are taking your finals tomorrow... and you catch a section in a chapter that was only mentioned but not covered. so you at least read over it,cuz its there. then on the test the next day there is an essay on that section... to me thats good luck. when you fail because of something thats out of you hands thats luck (or karma), however if you actively didnt do what you supposed to (didnt take notes, didnt listen to begin with, didnt study, ect) < then its not bad luck... its your own damn fault.

Luck is what we generally call the low percentage of a probable outcome in any given situation so it really doesn't exist.

If you go for the extreme improbable, your at a roulette wheel winning and winning that's 'good luck', it is an anomally that you are picking the winning square over and over. Is that good luck no it is a very improbable outcome, but we don't think or speak like that, we do so in 'simpler' terms as we learn the association of luck to odds without the math when we are young. Only when you get older and learn more about the odds do you understand what 'luck' really is that is if you so choose to.