97% of my time on Earth, so far, has been quite good.
I’ve had a good family life, loving parents, couple relationships that were valuable and warm, I’ve had work (several different jobs, some nice, some a bit less so), good health, no (serious) accidents.
A few drama’s, a few (not super serious) health issues.
Overall, I can say I’m a lucky guy.

@rebbel- Imposter!:)

I was lucky enough to be born to a married couple in their late 30s who wanted, were prepared for, and could afford children.
My Mom was able to stay at home and take care of us and help with school work while my Dad, worked and earned a living. Unfortunately my Mom passes away while we were teenagers but she left us with good manners, a desire for education, and put us on the road to being productive members of society. I was lucky indeed.
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@LuckyGuy -She did a good job :)

@lucillelucillelucille Yes she did. Thanks Mom!
She is the grandmother to 4 responsible adults and 3 great grandkids – so far.

It’s either luck or God, take your pick.

Lucky should be my proverbial middle name

For better than 40 years now I have been aware that my life has been one of extraordinary good fortune. It’s a subtle thing that I can’t prove in court, yet so pervasive and constant that I often grow uneasy with a feeling that I owe someone or something BIG TIME.

If you even think about your chances of having been born you, it’s pretty mind boggling.

First, you won the lottery aout of came out of millions and millions, 150 million, 200 million possible sperm options.

If your mom and dad had had sex at a different time of the day it probably would have resulted in some one besides you.

Take that same scenario back to their parents, and back and back and back in time. The impossibility of it is mind blowing.

As far as now that I’m here, I’ve been lucky and unlucky. FINALLY got a stable job in customer service at Rubbermaid….6 months later they transferred the customer service department to Ohio.

Then I got a job at CellOne. 4 years later they sold out to US Cellular and I lost my job.

Then I went to work for Edward Jones. The guy who hired me was on a mentoring program. We worked out of the back of the existing office here in town. After a month the guy made a mistake, got fired, and that was the end of that job.

And then there is Excel, losing my job because I got sick, and my husband exaggerated everything so bad my boss thought I had brain damage and hired someone to replace me before I was even out of the hospital.

I don’t believe in bad luck or good luck. We experience life. The good and the bad.

@Jonsblond You sound like my dad:)

@Jonsblond I would prefer to agree with you, but my observation confirms that the extraordinary variation between good and bad experienced by us all certainly is worth labeling- call it fortune, destiny or whatever, the sheer magnitude of the injustice in the distribution of those attributes forces you to some rather unsettling realizations. The idea of the universe and its workings being neutral overall may be fundamental to our understanding of it, but the gift/curse of cognition forces one to stare at at some glaring localized inconsistencies.