Luck Definition

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Luck: whether notably positive, negative, or improbable its experiences in our lives does have an effect.

We understand from a pragmatic standpoint that luck in itself is nothing more than a descriptive label set to describe an event in our lives: whether neutral, positive or negative.

No one chooses to who or where they are born. No one starts into a perfect life but everyone wishes for it.

Personally wouldn't you want to have experiences in your life that were only positive than negative? Nature shows how this can't always be: waves crashing on the seashore that swells and wane with the moon's cycle. Nature uses the moon in our sky to control the water in the seas and one isn't superior to the other. We feel this best illustrates

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