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Game of Life

Often in life, we find ourselves at the profit end of a situation, unsure of how we got there, and we attribute this success to luck. We're grateful for how we got there, and we move on. To rely on luck, however, is a recipe for disaster.

For this reason, as human beings, we work hard to achieve success, instead of relying on luck to get us through. But still, it raises the question: Is there really such a thing as luck, or is it just coincidence?

For two Chinese miner brothers, it seems to be a combination of the two. They were trapped underground about 30 yards away from the entrance to an illegal coal mine. Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou were in the black dust for more than 130 hours.

Early on Friday, relatives and friends went to the location to burn ceremonial money for the men to use in the afterlife. They also left ashes of burned canned goods, bread and cakes, assuming that their loved ones had perished.

Hours later, the brothers surfaced from the collapsed mine after digging with a pick for nearly six days. They had no food and little water, which forced them to drink their own urine to survive. The brothers had minimal kidney damage but otherwise seemed healthy, according to health officials.