Why luck???

"But I have never been the lucky sort, Julian. All that I have ever received has come through sheer persistence".
"What is luck, my friend?", Julian asks his friend, and answered himself, "It is nothing more than the marriage of preparation with opportunity"
Wondering, where this is leading to or who Julian is? Well, who Julian is, is probably not important, but this conversation is picked up from "The Monk who sold his Ferrari". Something about this particular conversation struck a deep chord somewhere within me. I think all of us sometime or the other have spouted the very lines which Julian's friend says..cursing our lack of luck or sometimes feeling jealous of other people's abundance of the same. Why is it, that we keep looking or wanting this elusive thing called luck..why indeed? Why dont we have more faith in our abilities and instead keep praying for some miracle to happen. In fact why to point fingers at others, I myself am guilty of uttering the same lines as Julian's friend not once but countless times.
All we have to do is keep on our toes, put in our very best, and be true when saying that we are putting our best, and keep all our 6 senses open for opportunities. One would say, easier said than done. But I think many of us would recall the recent film, 'Luck by chance'. I dont know why they named it so, coz I really feel the protagonist, played by Farhan, jumped at every available opportunity to achieve his goal, instead of waiting for his luck to shine. Remember the scene, when he arranged a grandfathers clock to win over an influential but very hostile guy, who had contacts with a top director in the industry, or that sequence when he used his wits at a big party to woo not the heroine(Isha Sharwani) but instead her mother(Dimple Kapadia) who had been a superstar in her time. Just few of many other incidents where even if luck was in his side, had he not pounced on every opportunity that came his way, he would not have made it big.
It is indeed quite difficult to let go of this attitude of ours, but I am sure once we take it in our life, we will stop depending on luck , and invariably expand our capacities to the fullest.