Those who witness an automobile accident and/or see a person struck by lightning or some other hazardous object are so glad that such an event did not happen to them. Those unfortunate people and/or animals were just in the wrong place at the time when they became a victim of a purely random event.

They are called random events because it is impossible to determine when such events will happen. You can also say that it was that person's bad luck that they, rather than some other parson, became the victim.

Luck, no luck or bad luck are just three ways to describe the occurrence of a random event. The truth is that bad things and good things happen to every person during some time within their life.

That person could buy a lottery ticket each week for the rest of its entire life, only to discover that as a result of a random drawing each week that person never won the top prize. Then again, some people have won the top lottery prize more than once. Yes, some people seem to have all of the luck.

Being lucky is not a scientific explanation of why only a few people or one person wins the weekly lottery and the rest of those who purchased a lottery ticket for the week in question simply lost. If there are 13 million possible number combinations and only one number combination will be drawn and will be the winning number combination, then you can say that the odds of winning are 1 in 13 million. If you purchased all of the possible winning number combinations one of your tickets would be the winner. That is, as a result of an event that is known as a random drawing.

So too, if the price of each ticket was one dollar, you would have to spend 13 million dollars to guarantee that you will win or share the top prize with another person. Buying all of the number combinations is not a random event. Then again, would you spend 13 million dollars to win a 5 million dollar jackpot?

On the other hand, if the jackpot was 100 million dollars, would you spend 13 millions dollars, knowing full well that you would win as much as 100 million dollars? Believe it or not, that is what some truly rich people do, and their choice to do so is not a random event.

You see, most rich people have what it takes to make a whole lot of luck for themselves. That being, they have the money, power and the desire to be even richer than they are, while the rest of have to depend on a random event to either, suffer, die, lose or become filthy rich. Therein is the randomness of luck, or the lack of such luck.

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