I should be so lucky!

I am very very unlucky in life. Nothing good has occurred to me. Till date from childhood, I had been always unlucky. Even in small cases, luck never favoured me. I only have very good parents. Nothing more than that. In career very unlucky despite having an excellent educational background and marks all throughout.

Yes I do... and I marvel at people who are even luckier than I am. I am super lucky to have a wonderful husband and a darling baby boy. We have a little yellow condo that we call home. It is very cozy and fits the three of us perfectly. Sometimes I drive down the streets of a nearby community and look at the big homes with many vehicles parked out front. It seems like many young couples with little new born babies are much luckier than I am. I wonder about their success, but do not envy them. I'm perfectly happy in my small little home. I can't imagine a happier home. I feel truly blessed everyday.

Hello humbug25! I am very sorry for what had happened to your brother. His life story is like a story on a book. I am glad that he was able to cope all the bad things that had happened to him.

I consider myself very lucky. All my life, I have experience only the good things. I mean, I have some down moments too, but not that bad compare to others. Just simple things actually.

Wow, Had anyone of you ever stopped to think that maybe you don't choose your significant other wisely. Anyways Personally I consider myself very lucky. I am Happily single^_^

Hi Humbug,I consider myself to be very blessed, I have never had it easy like yourself I bring my children up a lone which as you know isn't easy but I'm here, I'm well and I have my family around me. I only got taught how valuable life is last year when I lost my own sister, she was only 33, she herself had lost her child she was only 4 when she died and my sister still smiled through every day and she suffered terribly towards the end of her life and she still smiled, I remember once saying to her "What a horrible dismal day" (It was raining) and she replied "it's a day and it's beautiful" always stays with me does that, no matter what, we have life it's not a right it's a privilege, so yup I feel very blessed to be able to be here.

Yes I am very lucky in life although there have been times in the past when I didn't think that way. I ahad wonderful parents who made a very hard decision to move to Australia just after the end of World War II. At that time they had 3 sons and didn't speak a word of English but believed we would have a better life here than in Europe. Shortly after we arrived here, my youngest brother was born ... thank goodness the ship was not late or he would have been born on the high seas.

I had a wonderful childhood and in my late teens my father passed away from cancer whihc he fought for a few years. A few years after that my mother remarried and out stepfather treated us as his own children. We were all adults then.

In my early 30's I married. We built our own home, had 2 daughters and in general life was good ... or so I thought. We didn't have a lot of money but we were comfortable and never really wanted for anything. Then my marriage broke uop because my wife decided she preferred someone else to me. That was a really bad time in my life in many ways but also the best time because it was during that time I met the lady who is now my life partner. For the first couple of years we were just friends who would talk on the phone regularly and see each other if I happened to pass through the town where she lived.

One day we decided we might have a future together. We went to counselling to sort out any excess baggage from our previous marriages, how to blend our families etc. By this time the home I shared with my ex-wife had been sold, my partner sold the home she had and we combined our money to buy the place we have now.

Life could not be better for us. We are not rich and are still paying off our mortgage, both work hard and long hours but it is worth it. We blended the 2 families into 1 and so have 6 children between us who are all adults now. Ofour children, 2 daughters are married and another one takes the plunge soon as does one of our sons. The others are in stable relationships and we have 4 grandchildren with 2 more on the way.

Now if that isn't lucky I don't know what is.

Hi humbug, Oh yes I count my blessings daily. I have learnt a lot through some of my struggles and it is the life events that have happened that have given me strength. It also helps me to be able to help others that are experiencing something similar to what I have already been through. Huggles. Ellie:D

Actually, i'm not lucky but i'm blessed to have a wonderful hubby and family.. There are still things that i'm not grateful for like my poor health condition which has been bothering me for so many years.. I'm praying that God will grant me complete healing/miracle.. Good health/miracle is all i'm asking for.. material things? i don't need them because i'm already happy and content with the things i have right now..

hi humbug25...it's great that you love your children despite the disappointing relationship with your husband. i don't have it easy but i'm getting by. as long as i can pay my bills and do some things i enjoy i'm better off than many people and can be considered rich. so i'm glad that i'm not worse off.

Some of us have more rockier roads than other to traverse in life and if we are lucky enough to have close friends, companions and hope along the way we can navigate the rocky roads to put us on a safer path. Someone once said to me we are only given what we are capable of handling, but I am more of the believer of what doesn't kill us makes us stronger and if we can struggle through this crazy little thing called life and find happiness en route then we need to grab onto it, grab every opportunity, we only get one shot of life, gee I sound like I am slipping loads of cliches in. I like to think after 9 years of troubles my life has changed for the better. I have two goals that I wish to achieve this year my friend, getting back to work and getting my own place, I am filled with positivity, hope and happiness, for the first time in ages I can say with relish that my confidence has come back and slowly and surely my self esteem is rising. I think it's about positive mental attitude and I want to succeed I want to turn my life around and do it for ME. One final cliche, I apologize but experience really does come at the wrong end of life, and if I knew now what I knew then I think I would have avoided two nasty rocky roads in my life but then I wouldn't be me would I?