I think luck, or being lucky, can be a perspective. I've posted on here about awful things that I've been through in college but I still consider myself a lucky person.

- I got a job in 2009 in the financial sector, a job I had no experience or reason to obtain, a job that let me work from home full time and essentially dick around

- No one around me who I'm close with has died

- I've never been pulled over or gotten a speeding ticket - in fact, besides a few parking tickets, never had to mess with the police at all

- I've leveraged my initial job into a job where I make twice as much as I did intially, and that's within 3 years

- I've never broken a bone, never been hospitalized due to major illness, etc

- My bone tumor wasn't cancer!

Half of this (more) is perspective. I could look at all the shitty things in my life and say I am an unlucky person. You could argue that I'm not attributing enough to myself when I say, for instance, I got a job out of luck. But come on - a job in 2009 in the finance sector when I hadn't even finished getting my degree in English? I was applying for all jobs all over the place then. I was lucky enough to find that job posting. And I felt lucky to get the job.

But I like to maintain my belief that some of it is luck. I think I've gotten a lot of great things out of life and I am young and there is more coming. My brother totalled his car in a collision with a house and didn't have airbags, he emerged without a scratch. The police officers were shocked. How is that in some way not luck?

So I cling to a belief that my clan has luck, because I feel I have been lucky more times in my life than is accountable. Maybe my regression to the mean is coming up...but I think I also have a sunny disposition and am likely to look on the positive side of things and am likely to be thankful for the opportunities that come my way, and I will call it luck.

For me, luck and being lucky is as much about attitude and perspective as what happens to you in life.