Luck?

Luck? In where I stand, there's no such thing as luck.

Nah, I'm not trying to imitate Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was just something that I was trying to think about lately. The year just ended and we are now starting to count our calendars again - 365 days. Each day is a different scenario and in each scenario, we aim to shoo away what we deem as ill fortune.

From the places of the stars to the shape of a fruit, people tend to create wild ideas on how to deter bad luck as if fruits and stars have some connection in your life. Maybe it's easier to think that 12 different rounded fruits will help make you rich than to imagine the hard work you need to do in order to get the same result.

A friend of mine once said to me that life is already preordain. Luck therefore is already destine to happen. You just need to boost it with charms and some ritual "Mambo-Jumbo." 

I disagree. There is no luck - life is something you earn. Your fate is intertwined with your hard actions together with wise decision and no fruits nor stars can do it for you.