It's actually a distillation of a conversation I had with a girl that I never got around to sleeping with (you know, that kind of relationship). We were talking about friends of hers and how they were having hard times and I said they were unlucky. She said, and I'm paraphrasing,No, they just suck at life. I think luck is the preparedness to handle little opportunities and little setbacks without blowing up your life. I mean, he lost his job because he was late to work too many times because his car never worked because he always spent his money on booze and nintendo games. That's no unlucky, that's being lame. Sometimes bad things happen but I think "lucky" people are the ones that have the strength and skill to roll with the punches and catch the opportunities when they come by.