Being lucky

A lot of people think I am lucky. Indeed I feel the same myself. I have this innate feeling that this world will be kind to me and I dare say that statistically I have been more often lucky than unlucky. Of course this perception depends on what you want out of life so maybe we look at a few aspects.

Money
Health
Kids
Education
Travel
Love
Peace and contentment
Space
Friendship
Gadgets
Food availability

Well, when I cast my eyes down that list then I do indeed feel I have been lucky. There may have been bad moments but the good outweigh the bad. At least, I think so.

So is there a reason why I am lucky? Never really thought about it until I read some report, American, of course. They said that you cannot be consistently lucky at things which are pure chance. Interesting because I have only played roulette twice and I won both times – not with that black/red stuff or even odd/even numbers. I just put my money on one number each time and it won. You may say ‘same with the children.’ But then my wife and I chose each other and we chose to have children. OK we split up later but we brought each through their first 5 years of life which people say forms a person for life.

However, they also said that in other walks of life, some people are more consistently luckier than others because they think farther ahead and map out alternative scenarios. Makes sense to me. Certainly, I think my parents did.

Hence the expression, ‘Born lucky.’