The power of luck

Billionaire Warren Buffet likes to say that luck begins when we're born from a well-to-do mother in a well-to-do country, and there's a lot of truth to that. If one's born is Switzerland instead of Haiti, things are likely to be a lot more pleasant and will go a lot smoother. Then there is the luck dispensed by fate. I don't particularly believe in predestination, but sometimes events occur in very strange ways,

as if they were written into some prescient script and waiting for the protagonist to all be at the right place and the right time before they start to unfold. Call it serendipity, I call it luck. It looked easy to become the Rolling Stones in the 60s and Microsoft in the 80s, but both feats would be impossible to replicate today; so once again, timing is everything and is too, a by-product of Lady Luck's largess.

Then aside from environmental and timing consideration there are plain realities like health. Some of us are born with wonderful genes; others are not so lucky. My brother is one of them. Not only did he began to losing his hearing as a teenager, he then developed severe eyesight problems and today he's his straddled with pulmonary disease. Another good friend of mine has spent about three decades tending to his wife and her MS condition. We never give enough credit and enough thanks to good luck when we're blessed with it...