Do I believe in luck?

I never used to believe in luck. Afterall, I am a firm believer of 'We create our own destiny' and ' 'We reap what we sowed'. However, I have a spate of unfortunate events that has led me to think otherwise.

The first occurred whilst I was driving to work. The black car in front of me jammed his brakes, leaving me little reaction time to jam my brakes on the right most lane of the expressway. I could not have done anything to stop my car from kissing his butt, as I hit my brakes immediately. Whilst he apologised initially for executing such dangerous moves, he still proceeded to claim against me. What an ass-hole he is - pretending to nice and apologetic whilst stabbing me with a 5K claim for a minor dent on his rear bumper.

Thereafter, I was on the receiving end of a 4-car pile-up. Thankfully, I was the 1st car, though it caused major inconvenience as I was severely late for work. With major inconveniences of having to log my report for these 2 accidents within a week, I reckoned that luck wasn't my side.

To add on to my woes, I received a $100 parking fine for parking at the loading bay - whilst paying my grandma a visit. For a mere 20 minutes of unloading my bag of CNY goodies, I received a fine that wasn't warranted. And to end off my day, the bottom of the rear bumper of my rented car was scratched as I headed for home.

I figured that luck wasn't on my side. I have been careful in most of the tasks I do, for e.g. I was more wary of my speed whilst driving, I was slow in maneuvering my car in and out of parking lots. But incidents like these made me wonder - maybe luck do exist and I just happened to be on the bad side of luck. The year of the Dragon is coming to an end. Maybe the year of the Snake will bring me to the other side of luck.