Reply To: Wellington

[Norm S]

At the moment of being lucky, the other party has to be unlucky.

Perhaps when we use the word lucky, we are encapsulating a load of stuff we can’t quantify easily in any other way.

I have been considered both lucky and unlucky with die rolls and yet in truth at the time of each rolling I had the same 1 in 6 chance I have always had, as per the laws from physics / mathematics that govern such things.

On 18th June 1815, some may have felt that anyone, including Wellington, who walked away from the battlefield intact were lucky or at least ‘luckier’ than those that did not.