[ISL]

Luck plays a huge role in our lives.

In my limited experience with traumatic situations, talking with people, especially people who have dealt with similar experiences, can help to temper the psychological impact. For now, though, just hang in there. Things can get better.

[sharken]

Speaking of luck, the Formula 3 crash involving Sophia Floersch is one of the craziest displays of luck I can think of.

All of it documented here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2020/04/23/sophia-floe...

[lostlogin]

There are a lot of very lucky people after that disaster. Thanks for the link.

[mlrtime]

Luck has a huge role in how we were created as well. Think of the all the permutations in atoms since the big bang and the probability of you even existing.

[gkfasdfasdf]

And all the mutations in DNA as well to produce a living breathing thinking human being! Indeed we are all incredibly lucky.

[acqq]

   "Life is quite strange
   Life is quite weird,
   Life is really 
   quite odd.
   Life from a star 
   is far more bizarre,
   Than an old bearded bloke 
   they call God.
   So gaze at the sky, 
   and start asking why
   You're even here on this ball.
   For though life is fraught
   The odds are so short
   You're lucky to be here 
   at all"

(Galaxy DNA Song / Eric Idle)

[20after4]

infinity is an interesting thing. Every combination of thing that can be, will be and has been. The probability of not existing is zero.

[crooked-v]

Not true. 'Possible things' and 'impossible things' are two separate categories, and you can have an infinity of one that doesn't include the other.

For another example of separate infinities, consider the set of integers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...) and the set of integers-plus-one-half (1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5...). Both are infinite, but don't contain the other.

[martyvis]

I am always amazed at how people can hold this thought, considering the billions of lucky moments that would have had to go right over the eons, at the same time as one that demands diligence and deliberateness in planning and executing on those things in our lives and the world in order to make meaningful and successful progress every minute of every day

[_underfl0w_]

You seem to be underestimating the vastness of time throughout the entirety of the universe's existence. There's been far more time in the existence of the universe during which these things didn't happen than the time it took them to happen. If this all measurably happened immediately after the universe's inception, sure, intelligent design seems more likely. But that's simply not the case - the opposite of this all happening is it simply not happening, which was already the case at one point and occupied immensely more time and space before now than that of "existence" as you and I know it.

[lostlogin]

If the alternative is believing that some chap is orchestrating it and actually intended for my car keys to fall down that tiny hole in the deck because it would ultimately be a meaningful success, no thanks.

[kaonwarb]

I may be reading you wrong, but this strikes me as a straw man argument - there's a lot of space between the idea of intelligent design (which may be implied by a statement of how improbable non-intelligent creation of sentient life would be) and a complete abdication of free will (which is how I read your comment). Am I misinterpreting your point?

[lostlogin]

I interpreted the original point as championing intelligent design, but maybe I’m wrong and I’m missing something?

[Gerardd]

Indeed for luck... Things are already better thanks to our community and supportive friends and family. Thank you.

[apacheCamel]

I always heard the phrase: "I'd rather be lucky than good." growing up and the older I get, the more I realize just how true it is.

[james_s_tayler]

EMDR also