What is luck? It’s defined as “the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person’s life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities,” but what does luck really entail and how much does it effect one’s life? Luck is just another manmade concept and I will be covering it in this blogpost.

A recent picture of Lemke

Recently my class was lucky enough to have World War II veteran Helmut Lemke come in and tell us his amazing stories from the war. In this post I will be exploring the concept of luck using evidence from his stories, and examples of luck throughout his life.

my class with Lemke

Lemke as a young boy

My class has been assigned a project on a concept we thought was important in Helmut Lemke’s story, so my classmate Maria and I decided to create a podcast in which we will discuss the concept of luck. This podcast will include the following ideas: how luck affected his journey, whether or not he was aware of his luck, where he’d be without his luck and examples of each of these!

Now, how exactly did we create this podcast? So one day after school Maria and I got to use the PLP room to record our podcast. We had already started tossing around ideas so we worked together to create a format. We already had our questions so we looked through our notes to figure out which stories we wanted to use where. We decided to make our podcast conversational so we decided to not write a script but instead know generally what we were talking about.

Once we felt ready, we began recording. We used Opinion to create our podcast which was a great app because it allowed for us to edit as we went along. Creating our podcast was actually quite fun in my opinion, because we just had a conversation about Helmut Lemke’s story and his luck throughout it. Afterwards we went through, cut out the parts we didn’t want and we were done!

I hope you enjoyed our podcast, and I know not everybody believes in luck, so feel free to comment any disagreeing opinions below!