Does luck has anything to do with succes4

Does luck has anything to do with success?
Throughout their lives all people strive to succeed. To achieve this
most of them work hard and rely only on themselves in making their
dreams come true. But in this process of continuous toiling they
encounter luck or lack of it, and sometimes it proves crucial to a
person's development. In my opinion hard work is the main thing
that defines success, but in most cases luck also plays a very
important role. First of all, hard work can be controlled by people,
but luck can't. Everyone can decide whether to work hard or not, but
almost no one can predict luck. That's why people should toil and be
dependent on
their knowledge, not on their luck. For example, two friends of mine
were preparing for an exam at the same time. One of them was
studying very much, and the other one hoped he will have luck to
pass the exam, because he was always lucky. At the day of the exam
the first got a great score, because he was well prepared, and the
second failed, because that day he had bad luck. Second, although
hard work is most important, sometimes people need little luck.
Luck, however, doesn't come to all people who wish for it, but only
to those who are prepared for it. For instance, Michael Faraday, the
famous physicist, discovered one of the most important laws in
physics by chance. But I think that it's not surprising that he was
lucky then. Faraday had studied so deeply this subject that he was
ready to investigate this phenomenon, conduct experiments about it,
and finally formulate it, so that all people can use it. And finally, I
think that there are situations in which luck prevails over hard work
and knowledge, and without it the person can't achieve anything.
There are also people who traditionally have bad luck, and it's very
difficult for them to succeed. For example, my cousin worked day
and night over a project and finally completed it just a day before the
deadline. Unfortunately, the next day when he was reviewing it for

the last time he spilled his cup of coffee over it. The project was
useless, and because of his bad luck my cousin got a poor mark. In
summary, I think that both hard work and luck are crucial to one's
development, but we should work hard in order to ensure success as
much as possible, although sometimes bad luck may make our effort
useless. But after all, we can't depend on something we can't control.