BS: Are you lucky?

Subject: BS: Are you lucky?
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 26 - 06:48 PM

How are you lucky? I think I'm lucky in health.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you lucky?
From: BobL
Date: 12 Apr 26 - 03:27 AM

Looking back over my life, I think I've been incredibly and undeservedly fortunate, materially at least.

Born towards the end of WW2, I missed its horrors but grew up during the period of recovery that followed.
My abilities turned out to be ideal for the newly-invented career of computer programming.
The sale of council houses in the 1970s put me on the property ladder.
Mechanical skills enabled me to drive a series of bangers at minimal cost.
A love of folk music & dance and a taste for camping kept down holiday expenses.
State and company pensions are now more than enough to keep me in modest comfort.

It hasn't been all plain sailing: I'm not given to envy but I admire those with a happy family life, who succeeded where I failed.
And I'm able to support various organisations that help those who failed where I succeeded.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you lucky?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Apr 26 - 11:46 AM

Having lived downwind from the Rocky Flats plutonium fires, sickened by 3 Mile Island with a weird spinal nausea, smoking, and investigating toxic waste sites, I am surprised at my good health. Even as an artist messing with cadmium and other toxic metals, I am unscathed. All on top of being albino and vulnerable to the sun and X-ray storms.

Only beatings by my fellow man have been injurious. Presience has played a big part in saving my skin. Having tried, I can not play piano or speak foreign languages, My guess is having insights into time plays a big role in luck.