Bad Luck?

luck

lək/

noun

1. 1.

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

   "winning the lottery was pure luck"

Some people are definitely lucky, and others not so much! 

If you're the person who owned this Lotto ticket, you might fit into the not so much category! Like, the odds of winning the average lottery are many millions to one, so the odds of being one number off on every single number must be astronomically high, or higher, as well.

If you didn't have to, would you even want to know how close you came to winning the jackpot?

There are plenty of weird stories about luck when it comes to lottery winners and their tickets or numbers!

How about the father and son who both won on the same lottery with separate tickets, or the guy who was cleaning out his desk one day and found a forgotten lottery ticket that was 6 days from expiring and proved to be a winner! Then there's the Scottish family who's members have won the lottery 3 times, and the breast cancer patient who's won twice. 

Would you consider the latter to be a good luck versus bad luck battle? 

And how about persistence versus luck, or a combination of the two factors?

Olga Beno, of Atlantic Canada, dreamed of her lottery numbers and subsequently played them, winning over $5 million...28 years later!!

Then there's the 'karma' philosophy, the cause and effect of actions.

A fellow in New Zealand, waiting in line to buy lottery tickets, was rudely pushed aside by a brusque customer who butted in front of him. Instead of losing his cool, he calmly waited and bought his randomly picked tickets after the other customer was done. 

He claimed his $1 million prize later that week, something that may not have happened had he not bought his tickets at that precise moment . 

stock photos by @byronasorus