Everyday at some point or the other, we associate the factor of “luck” in our daily lives. We, as human beings, or as an individual ‘apparently’ control many things in our life. I have so called control over my body, my actions and so on. ( What about mind?) But there are many things which we have slightest of control, and hence the luck factor comes in. As defined by Oxford dictionary, Luck is

Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.

This certainly bifurcates our luck into ‘good luck'(GL) and ‘bad luck'(BL). Is every person’s luck in his/her own time independently defined and quantified? Are luck and time related?

Say every action we perform be a combination of personal effort and luck(chance). Outcome of action(Event) = Personal Effort + Chance/Luck Factor

Every event that happens in our lives is a result of what we do individually in our First person view and other events happening in the world. Such events which we have negligible control of can be defined as ‘chance events‘. So every event is affected by a certain chance which will decide the complete outcome. If the luck is in favour, the event maybe a success or the way it was thought to happen. But inversely, the outcome may turn out to be a total random event.

For example, you plan that tomorrow you’ll get up as usual in a routine of yours, catch a bus, go to school/work…..so on. But it turned out that you couldn’t catch the bus as it broke down somewhere and you end up at home. Here getting up early and dressing up is personal effort, whereas the breaking down of bus comes under the luck factor. Now due to this change in event caused by the chance factor, the whole thought up eventchain collapsed. Maybe you’ll end up doing something totally random that day which you will certainly remember as a memory.

Graph 1.

This is a rough imaginative graph of a random individual in any random timezone. The starting point is at a random point of time. The unit of time is not defined as the units we know are human made and may not comply with the natural unit as we have no clue about what time is. The top half of the graph indicates when luck is in favour at that current time instant and vise versa for the bottom half of the graph. If this is the case, the events we perform when our luck factor is positive may result in better yields than when performed in negative luck factor condition. What if in future we could understand or recognise this pattern? Maybe if god exists, he can control the totality with this universal factor?

I have two real life cases to explain the above : Case I – Goodluck Phase : On a normal day, a misclick resulted in a wrong bet on a match, whose outcome surely was known to all. He had lost a sure-win bet. Same day he had ordered pizzas. Twist of plot, suddenly the matched changed and he won the bet which was way against the odds. Additionally, pizza delivery got delayed and he got the order for free.

Case II – Badluck Phase : A normal night, the guy had bet on a match. He was winning the bet till now, when things started changing. He got in a quarrel with his friend. The match changed and he started losing the bet, eventually lost. Consecutively, two cups of chai fell on him and the football team he supports lost the game too.

A thing to notice here is that the events which test our luck/chance lead to increase in adrenaline just like sports or any such major personal-event too. Many people enjoy this state, the excitement of the moment, the uncertainty of the moment. Maybe this is the case because such events put to trial the maximum extent of ‘luck per unit time‘ of the individual?

Graph 2.

The above graph shows the Evolution of humanity over time. We have come a long way and are constantly evolving at an exponential rate. We can’t tell much about the past, but certainly the timeline we are living in is growing rapidly. Maybe we are currently somewhere in the start or middle of that rising curve in the graph. We, as a whole universe are heading towards more uncertainty and disorder which is leading to high frequency of events (illustrated at the ending of graph 1). Maybe graph 1 is a three-dimensional graph with the other dimension as ‘events’ on the Z-axis which indicates the number of events happening in time? Maybe we are heading towards infinite frequency of happenings, where we don’t understand time as moving forward or backward, where “everything” is in the NOW.