Do you consider yourself lucky or unlucky?

[FreeBritnee]

I’ve been pondering this for quite a while. I consider myself pretty unlucky. Lots of bad things have happened to me in my life and generally I’m the sort of person that won’t win competitions or prizes or hardly ever get a win on the Premium Bonds etc.

My partner on the other hand is a pretty jammy sod. However I think I’m starting to taint his luck, like I’m a bad omen and it’s starting to worry me 😬

Do you believe in luck or do you think it all comes down to perception or generating your own luck, making lemonade out of lemons etc. I would t say I’m a pessimistic person generally, more of a realist, but I’m absolutely not an optimist that’s for sure!

@Arsebucket same !! I'm always waiting for the next bad thing to happen.

I’ve never had a premium bond win in 50 years, so you’re doing better than me if you’ve had one win.

Very lucky I think, despite a couple of massive things eg death of a parent when I was little that others (I'm looking at you Prince Harry) might use to cast themselves as unlucky.

What a disgusting thing to say

I believe luck is random so you can't be inherently lucky or not.
But I believe that the choices you make and the oaths you take out you in the path if opportunities and "luck" that otherwise wouldn't be there. A bit like you make your own luck

Well that made no sense!

The path you take not oath
Puts you in the path of opportunities

Mixed bag - v fortunate materially, health, looks, amazing education and job. Personal life an utter mess - I come from a very dysfunctional family, emotionally unstable mother who I never felt close to, my first child passed away, divorced, don’t feel like I’ll meet anyone again (and will die not having sex again ), find it hard to meet people socially and so don’t have a network. So, to an outisder my life looks and is wonderful but the things that make for a very happy life are all absent. This isn’t down to bad luck though but also personality traits - I’m quite insular and more so because of my circumstances but an outgoing person’s life who went through similar would like quite different, I imagine.