A man walks across the street holding up some cars - one of the cars gets held up at the light causing the driver to just miss a traffic accident in front of him - which makes him late for work and so was fired - which is that last straw for his wife and she files for divorce... and so on.

Many thing happen to us. It may be that this is all that occurs; but if things happen to us, we are less likely to have an impact on things happening. If so, then there is really little conscious direction in our lives. We live in a world of accidents. The seemingly random events of our lives take on a connotation of good or bad luck.

A story on luck:

And old man lives with his son in a thatch house on a hill. One day his horse runs away off into the country. Being that the horse is his primary means of making his living his neighbors come and console him on his bad luck. The old man asks them how they know it is bad luck. Several weeks pass and the horse returns with a herd of wild horses. His neighbors return and commend him on his good luck. He asks how they know it is good luck. While his son tries to train one of the wild horses it bucks him off and paralyzes him from the waist down. His neighbors again return and try and console him on his bad luck. The old man still wonders how they know it is bad luck. A month later a war breaks out and his son is unable to go because of his paralysis.

And so this seems how our life can pass. Most of us identify with the events of our lives so we often miss the underlying cuases, if there are any that may be understood. The behavioral and thinking patterns engrained within us dictate a designed reaction - i.e. 'good luck' or 'bad luck'? What if it is neither, or something else? In a world of good or bad luck there seems to only be accident.

But what if there could be more than accident? There would need to be a stronger internal force within than the current ruling external force without. We would have to have control of our machine. We would need a real and conscious 'I'.