Lucky and unlucky

Unlucky can be lucky, and vice versa

You might say,

“Today is my lucky day, I found 1 ringgit note by the road.”

In contrast, you might also say,

“Today is my unlucky day, I tripped and fell on a dog poo.”

The difference between lucky and unlucky, what is it?
They are antonyms, that’s an obvious. One has the prefix un- while the other doesn’t. One is used for something bad while the other is used for something good.

Maybe there are no difference in those two words after all. An unlucky incident may actually be a lucky thing to someone else. If you loose your money, that would be really unlucky, but for the person who found your money, that person would be really lucky.

Maybe it’s also associated with the state of your thinking. If you are positive, you’ll be using more of lucky and less of unlucky. You may say that you’re lucky to have lost your money because your wallet is so full it might explode at any time that you’ll loose more money. Optimism works wonders, and pessimism works walls.

So, lucky and unlucky might be the same after all. After all, it’s based on the basis of probability. You don’t use both words that often because they don’t occur frequently. It’s a number game. Try using lucky more often, and stifle the use of unlucky. Taadaa, you just increase your lucky days!

Delete the un in your unlucky and start getting luckier.

“Today is my lucky day, I tripped and fell on a dog poo.”