"I remember a lunatic who kicked the shins off me. Then he played the fool." - "That was Lucky."

I’ve been thinking a bit about luck recently. These thoughts were of course mainly driven by the idea that i was particularly unlucky. Beginning with the trams that i always miss, to my uni department that’s become a mess, to having a voucher for the hairdresser and they won’t find the voucher number, to a lot of other small things. On the other hand i can’t be particularly unlucky though. I never had a major accident, i never broke a bone, i never had an STD (probably), i never lost my handbag, my bank card or my mobile phone and i never forgot my keys at home. But maybe that’s just because i’m cautious. Whenever i’m incautious, something bad happens. Like a burglary in my house, my bike gets stolen and so forth. So are cautiousness and luck related to each other?
Usually we consider luck an external force. Some people think you can manipulate it, others think you can’t.
Personally, I’ve been talking to a girl a couple of days ago who believed that luck would just come to you if you really wished for one thing. This idea is really nice, and i wish i could believe in it, too. But it’s too easy for me. Why are people being hurt in relationships then, why is there one-sided unlucky love? Because there are two people who might wish for very different things with their same obscure wishing power? Or just because you can’t change someone else? Because you can’t work on someone else? You could be wishing so hard, but if the other one doesn’t wish the same thing, you’ll find yourself standing right on the border to obsession and insanity. So desiring too much is no good!
Still, i don’t think wishing is really the key to luck. I rather think it’s the key to working harder, it’s the key to biasing your perspective and concentration, to focussing on the things you want to have, to working into one direction and onto one goal. But here again, when it comes to social relationships, there isn’t really much you can do. Of course you can try and work on it, but you can’t do it alone. So maybe that’s when you just need luck. The luck to find someone who actually wants to work with you on the same project.
But then, if hard work makes you succeed in anything (but love), there is no need for the conception ‘luck’ in your everyday, professional life. So obviously, luck is something that is only involved in social relationships - or something that might not be involved.