I have known a lot of people in my life who blame bad luck for the way their life is. They believe that there is some sort of cosmic force that is making their life horrible.

These are the same people that wind up always having to talk to the supervisors whenever they call a utility or a credit card and also swear that everyone who works in the customer service field has no training or skill. These people spew negativity with almost every word they utter and wonder why the universe just seems to hate them.

Blaming bad luck has become a popular thing to do. Things are not perfect in our world, and if you just blame bad luck it seems that you can make excuses for everything.

But, in reality, excuses are all they are.

1) Is Bad Luck Real?

Is bad luck real? That depends on your point of view. My step-sister was in a car accident almost ten years ago. It was seven o'clock at night and she was hit by a drunk driver. Was it just bad luck that she got hit?

If you think about it from just her point of view, then yes, I suppose you could blame bad luck. If, however, you look at it from the other point of view of the driver, than it was choice that put my step-sister and her family in the hospital.

The driver chose to drink early that evening, and chose to get behind the wheel instead of finding alternative transportation. It was a horrible accident that landed my step-sister and her family in the hospital, but I do not think it was bad luck at all.

If you study the occult at all, you will learn that a curse that is cast can have no power if the one being cursed does not believe that it is real.

The same holds true for bad luck. If you stop blaming bad luck for everything that is wrong in your life, bad things will slowly stop occurring. Instead of considering something to be bad luck, think of it as part of the learning process.

If your first lover is one who treats your horribly, you may put up with it for longer than you should simply because you do not know better. If you learn from the situation, however, you will not be so easily taken in the next time you find a person to love.

Bad luck is not real: bad situations are. It is up to you to make the most of bad situations. Whenever you are in a bad situation you have choices you can make. Sometimes it seems as though any choice you may make is a bad one, so you need to choose the choice that is the least evil of all the other choices.

If you are into spirituality, you can also think about what you put into the world. A number of different religions believe that you get out of the world what you put into it. If you are spewing tons of negativity into the world, the world is going to give negativity back.

If, instead, you're being generous and trying to remain upbeat, you will find that life is much more sunny.

2) Can You Improve Good Luck?

So now that we know bad luck does not exist, but bad situations do, does good luck exist? Not really. Most good luck that occurs is really just choice. Take scratch tickets. A seemingly random choice of tickets means that you either win or lose.

You, however, are the one that chooses which ticket to buy and how many, so it is a completely random thing, whether you win or lose. There are ways to make sure that you improve on your choices, though, making it seem as though you have good luck.

To begin with, think about situations before you act. If you are, say, going into a business meeting, think about all the possible scenarios. Then think about how you would react.

If you are meeting a date for lunch, think about how things could go, and then how you'd like them to go, and how you can turn the date into the one that you truly want. You have much more control over your life than you know, if you simply sit back, observe, and learn from the world.

So good luck and bad luck, even though they are blamed and blessed for so many events, are things that could not exist if we didn't make any decisions. It is our decisions, actions, and reactions that make our lives either seemed blessed or cursed.