Luck.

Luck:
Luck or good luck is success or good things that happen to you, that do not come from your own abilities or efforts.
Bad luck is lack of success or bad things that happen to you, that have not been caused by yourself or other people.

I don't agree with the first two words. Luck itself is neither good or bad, putting a positive or negeative adjective in front of it to sway it one way or the other makes it good or bad.
I was talking about it with a friend and he was the one to explain this concept to me, I was the only one out of a group of five that understood what he was saying.

Is luck even real? Is it merely another supersticion, a myth that helps shifts the blame of something bad happening or explains why something - whether it be good or bad - has happened?

Luck and supersticion go hand in hand, don't they? I follow some supersticions even thought I don't particularly believe I'd get bad luck if I didn't follow them - or do I? Would I follow them if I didn't believe in them at all? I think I just do it for the fun, for a bit of variety and change.

My cousin and I used to follow the magpies supersticion for a laugh when we were playing golf when we were young and it's stuck now.
"One for sorrow, two for joy.
Three for a girl, four for a boy.
Five for silver, six for gold.
Seven for a secret never to be told."
We made up eight, nine and ten but I can't remember them anymore, but when do you ever see more seven magpies together? To counteract seeing however many magpies you saw, you have to touch the object that goes with the number. For one, you must touch green and two you must touch red. Then a girl for three, a boy for four and so on. I don't know what you have to touch for seven, but I've never seen more than four magpies together.

I do a lot of music and drama which means we're in theatres a lot and it's bad luck to say "MacBeth" in a theatre. You have to turn about three times and touch the floor if you do. Not that that would counteract it. Although that doesn't bother me too much, my friend really believes it so none of us can say it or she's on edge for the show show.
I tend not to walk under those sign posts that are like an arch way, or walk over three drains that are in a row. If I do walk under or over them though, it's not the end of the world, I just think "it's just a supersticion, it doesn't mean anything" and that's the end of it. I dont mind anything else really.
macbeth in a theatre.

Supersticions like black cats and walking under ladders don't bother me. I can walk under a lad or have a black cat cross my path and it won't worry me at all, I'll completely forget about the fact that it happened, even if something bad happens. I won't consider that as the reason for the bad happenings.

Either way, it's nice to have good luck on your side.

Luck to you all.
Preferably good luck.
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