Luck....

This is one of the words i hate. I sometimes wonder where did this word came into existence and the river of my thoughts make me believe, its just one of the ways to explain a failure without taking responsibility for it. I guess this word gives people a chance to clean their hands off their mistakes (well , mistakes arent so bad, a post on that topic some day later).
Most of the times luck is blamed for failure when the person who has failed does not has the guts to take responsibility for it. Whenever a student fails in his exam he simply says "my luck wasnt good enough" , and yeah sometimes his parents too will support him so that he doesnt feel demoralised. But the truth is there is nothing such is luck. There is a person who scores a 100. I am not saying that failing is bad but what i say is that not taking the responsibility of your failure is pretty unhealthy. I myself could'nt get into IIT, and i do not blame my luck for that (i guess the universe has much usefull things to do rather than to decide my career), i simply accepted the failure and also took the complete responsibility for it. I told my parents that yes i did not work hard enough, i did not study much.
Whenever i say these things to anybody people do go mad on me for blaming them for their failures but i think the use of this word makes people feel helpless and complacent. Helpless in the sense that you will believe that whats the point in working hard anyways if my luck is bad and i am going to fail, and complacent in the sense that you may believe that since my luck is good enough so whats the need to work hard.
What i believe is that person should stop being dependant on things like luck and be self dependant, after all their is nothing we cant achieve. Think what would have happened if Bill Gates would have thought that he need not do anything, if his luck is good enough he will get microsoft anyway. So go people, blame the luck less and work hard...