By chance????

Swear by it, love it, ignore it, reject it…but rare would the person who hasn’t had an encounter with it-at least a chance encounter…did I say Chance?

“Chance as a power in men’s affairs” would summarily sum up Luck or Fortune. Simple enough?? Unlike say the potholes of the city or the emerging supremacy of China which are clear as daylight, luck lends itself to as many interpretations as the people asked.
‘Luck to me is sticking around being persistent / perserving till Labour/ effort/ intentions meets OPPORTUNITY. You never know when opportunity comes, so the persistent efforts must continue to work towards whatever maybe dear to you. luck to me is not like winning a lottery’
‘Luck is a state of mind. When something happens, one is lucky and when it does not, one is unlucky. They are two sides of the same coin and can spin either way.’
One only gets what one asks for in life…it is all about timing. Some get it earlier in life, some have to struggle more for it. So ultimately what one gets is what one asked for…
luck is the bridge taking you from where you are and where you deserve to be. Luck is a very undefined entity and it is mostly belief. .
Luck to me is something good that you have been blessed with in your life that is due to good karma in past.....some times people value it sometimes they dont.....well i think some people are born lucky....they have all the luck in the world.....& luck again i think is what u get out of the karma

According to me luck is when my hard work and efforts match the divine will and make things happen for me. Yes I believe luck happening when the above said situation takes place.
Why was America not named after Christopher Columbus but the less deserving Amerigo Vespucci? Did Newton really deserve all the credit for discovering the law of gravity?...someone does the hard work and someone else steals the limelight.

Luck is Lady, Luck is Goddess and perhaps carries the signature of the Devil when it favors someone else…

The winning team of a Himalayan car rally says ‘ last time we had to quit the rally when the pump failed. This time we took care, we were focused and Lady Luck was more forgiving!’ Is it ‘who dares, wins’ which is the motto of the Special Air service?
Or as Gary Player would have said it ‘the harder I practice, the luckier I get’.
John Milton saw luck as the ‘residue of design’ while Penn Jillette said ‘Luck is probability taken personally’.
The law of probability may minutely calculate how often a tossed coin will land on its head or ‘tail’; logic may outline the steps that will follow, but for the sheer childlike, fateful excitement of it, it is best that a toss remains the supreme chance decider.
What would be the probability of people getting duped by ingenious tricksters? Would it be probability, chance or sheer stupidity which would propel a man to buy a fake Canon camera from a stranger on the road? One guy understood in the nick of time that he was being duped, another fell for the offer-did Dame Luck desert him?
For the rationalist, fortuitous may be a frivolous word, or perhaps just nonsense. The simpleton may on the other hand be awed by any coincidence.
In a Reiki class, a teacher claimed to be able to use Reiki to make a hurdleless dash to the airport in a busy city. We may renounce this as simplistic but how often haven’t we been in a similar stressful situation and wished some force to just dissolve the traffic bottlenecks on the way? ‘you should have it all planned and started for the airport a good two hours in advance’ says the rationalist. Planning? A singularly deceptive word I should say. From unplanned expenditure to unexplained babies, the rationalist would have a great deal to account for-and fail!
Luck, I would say, is having, getting, becoming and living what one desires. And as such who doesn’t have at least a brush or two with it? . It is perhaps basically about knowing what one wants absolutely clearly. If, as someone suggests, we only get what we really want, and as another says, it is all about timing, is it that we forget with time what our real yearnings were? In this age of instant fulfillments, Lady Luck may have to reinvent herself to retain credibility.
‘Being/feeling lucky’ is a verb which can be only conjugated in the first person…
Feeling lucky is like a mountaineering experience; you summit occasionally but you feel you are on the right route!
Perhaps the most defining moment of luck is the last. To die as one wishes would neatly sum it up. Not all are that Lucky, so the next best would be to die in peace or to a lesser degree to die without regrets, complaints or wants.
But here is the only instance of letting someone else say ‘he/she was lucky’.