什么是“幸运小姐”（Lady Luck）？_其他

什么是“幸运小姐”（Lady Luck）？

God or heaven or Lady Luck, in short, are all neutral. As it is with the Roman personification of luck Fortuna or the Greek goddess of fortune Tyche, Lady Luck brings both good fortune and bad. In fact, no deity or heavenly figure has any particular intention to work for or against you.

Indeed, it beggars the question, who do you think you are?

See? Therefore in the end it’s all you. Do what you have to do and accept what happens willingly – because you ARE your luck. No point looking elsewhere.

Or, as it is more likely the case with most people, don’t do what you’re supposed to do and lament over what happens to you next, not knowing that you deserve your luck. You do. Just on the account of the very fact that you give yourself over to chance, you do.

As an expression, by the way, Lady Luck is a relatively new invention. Lady Luck is said to have been popularized in the 1930s in the casino. Some gamblers, you see, sometimes bring women to watch them play. When they win, they are often polite enough to attribute their good luck to their lady standing by. Hence, luck is personified as a lady instead of a lad.

Don’t take her too seriously, though. As Rod Stuwart sings, like any good woman (or lad for that matter), Lady Luck can turn real inconsistent, and fickle.

Here are media examples:

1. Mary Poppins said it first, to Michael and Jane in the nursery: “In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun and—snap!—the job’s a game!” Enterprising college students are building businesses everywhere: either by taking over the world Zuckerberg-style or simply promising to deliver late-night noshes direct to your dorm room. Now, a couple of lads, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, after much head-scratching and experimentation, have hit upon the element of fun in higher education—such tedium!—and invented a Web site, Ultrinsic.com, which allows students to bet on their own college grades. Snap! Scholarship’s a game.