Progress

Giant fires became the number 1 topic in the media last year. The entirety of Australia was burning. But the risk of forest fires rises everywhere. The reason? Unsurprisingly enough – global warming.

I’m going home from work, I pull out the phone from my pocket and I start scrolling Instagram. Once more I see the perfectly cropped pictures with candy filters. I’m attacked from all sides with posts about healthy living and exercises that actually give you a flat stomach. I look at the wide smiles of people with perfectly sculpted bodies. I realize it’s been a month since my last visit at the gym. I start to feel guilty. I realize it’s yet another time when social media made me feel insecure.

Luck and bad luck are topics that are deeply rooted in our culture and language. They are so widespread that even non-superstitious people believe in it. On the other hand we have people, who discard this kind of thinking and say it has no place in reality. And so a question emerges, whether is it really such a black-and-white matter. Do talismans and other tricks have no influence on our “luck”? And do we have influence over it? The answer might be less obvious than you think.