My father always used to say, "If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all."
Capn, maybe the word you're looking for is 'lot', as in 'your lot in life'.
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lot, n ...3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion]
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