Should we feel guilty if we are lucky?

 It seems as though the old belief that there is no pleasure without pain has been extended into other areas of our lives.  In particular there is a trend in the perception of luck and of good favour.  A perception that many people hold, whereby the subject associates periods of luckiness with a forthcoming period of unluckiness.

There are a few ways to look at this.  The first is from a Psychological perspective and would be along the inclination that luck is purely a mentality and does not actually exist.  A mentality that associates positive events in our lives as being caused by good luck and negative events being caused by bad luck.  This association is on a personal level.  The basic principle here is that where there are those who believe that a period of bad luck is forthcoming as a consequence for their present good luck, these people ultimately have an inferiority complex.  A complex where they believe that they are not worthy of good luck and therefore they believe that bad luck will ensue and "even out" the field.

Another way to look at this aspect of life is from a Philosophical point of view where multiple theories exist on the matter of luck.  Some follow loosely the principles of Karma while others focus on whether or not luck is something which we as humans can actually control.

Personally I would rather approach luck from the Psychological perspective which essentially states that luck cannot be proven to exist but cannot be disproved, simply choosing the conclusion that if it does exist we cannot control it.  In this scenario in response to the question, should you feel guilty when lucky?  I would reply, no.  I would like to think that good luck was a reward but then the inverse would state that bad luck is a punishment which I cannot accept therefore I would conclude that luck is indiscriminate.  We can easily say that this is true as we can draw upon those who are considered lucky and show their various backgrounds as being incredibly diverse.

Do you feel guilty when you are lucky?