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.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you lucky?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Apr 26 - 09:43 AM

My father dead when I was 5, my mother left with 4 kids. But we had a mortgaged house to live in.

Little money, but we got along and with work and loans all four graduated college.

Myself and two brothers in the military at the same time. Two served in Vietnam and my on the ROK DMZ. All came home more-or-less intact.

I had a 40+ year career. My surviving brother is in a VA-contracted nursing home for moderate dementia, among other things.

We get by on pensions from four states, social security, and a VA disability benefit   Our home and vehicles are paid off.

Yes, lucky.