I've always considered myself to be a pretty lucky person. I mean, I was born into a financially stable, loving family as blue as the summer sky, in what used to be the richest country in the world. How many other people can say that they've been so lucky from their very first day on Earth?
A friend once told me I had "this attitude like everything is gonna be all right." To her, this was a result of my naivete, but to me it seems like a result of my realism. I have never been under any illusions about my own privilege; I appreciate it every day, owe every advantage I have to my privilege and luck and try always to place my own hardships in the context of the hardships of others. I hardly ever have a good reason to complain.
I write about this to give you an idea of the power of luck in my life, the energy that I can feel (most days) guiding me towards my "everything is gonna be all right." My philosophy of luck as it relates to balance. I don't know. So that maybe you can understand why I know that we are going to prevail tomorrow.
How I know, and a lil' somethin' you can do to improve our luck after the jump...
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