A Lucky Man

I'm visiting my mother and I'm meeting a lot of relatives that I rarely meet otherwise. It's always an amazing experience to meet them and to listen to their stories and this time I've heard a story that I want to share.

This man had an accident where he fell and landed on a knife that went straight through his wrist. Unfortunate, you might think, but he was lucky because he did not cut any important parts and could pull the knife out, still use his hand, and without bleeding to death. He bought a boat and renovated it but when he put it in the water it started taking in water. Once again he was lucky because the boat did not sink. He had a large glass screen fall over his head and while it cut him badly he was still lucky because it did not decapitate him. These are only three examples from a long list of things that had happened to him but you get the idea.

He's such a classic example of the thought that I live by, "How you look at life determines what your life will be like". Looking at the good and lucky things in life will get you a happier life even when things don't happen as you had hoped for.

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"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry,

show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile."