Einstein once said that coincidence is God's way of staying annonymous.
This was said shortly after he was asked to lecture on the Big Bang thoery
and expound on whether he did believe that the world was formed through
sheer chance or a galactic stroke of luck. Einstein hesitated to credit the
creation of our universe to luck but he did admit that our beautiful universe
was, to him, a deliberate design;something too intricately formed to exist
just because luck was on our side.
Similarly, man has never left his precious life totally in the hands of luck.
There have certainly been episodes in history where man has looked to Lady
Luck, but whenever possible, he has trie to determine the direction and scope
of everything he has build for himself, for afterall it was his life to lead.
For the longest time, before science and self-determinism really began to alter
the way we perceived the world, superstition and belief in luck did indeed dictate
the running of many lives.After all, our beliefs about four-leaf clovers, broken
mirrors and rabbit's feet must have stemmed from man's incapacity to control the
ill-fated turns of their own lives and therefore he inevitably turned to luck for
answers. But as we gained the ability to control our environment and circumstances,
only then was luck relegated to mythology and folktales, suitable for delighting
children but not exactly a key factor in determining our lives.