RECENT events have made me think about luck.
Not the rabbit’s foot kind of luck or even the wear an unwashed pair of socks to a football game kind.
I’m talking the big, lifesaving luck – the cosmic kind.
Reports have come out of the devastating Malaysian Airline MH17 incident of people who were meant to be on that plane but for some reason or another were not.
An Adelaide couple came back from their honeymoon on the same flight a day earlier after they changed their original booking on last Thursday’s MH17.
Just because of a last-minute change of plans they are now able to spend the rest of their lives together.
And MH17 isn’t the only event which has birthed the lucky few.
Ian Thorpe went to the twin towers the morning of 9/11 only to turn around and go back because he forgot his camera.
But it’s not just the big events; most people have experienced it in some way or another.
Whether it was leaving five minutes later than usual and avoiding being in an accident or changing your food order at the last minute and avoid food poisoning.
Or for all the ladies out there, when you walk past a store just as they’re putting out the sale sign.
I mean, I moved away from a club window to get a drink one night, just to have someone push a guy out of the same window.
I’m not going to lie; I went out and bought a Lotto ticket the first chance I got because I thought the gods were on my side.
The point is, sometimes the stars just align and I would like to think it’s for some greater picture – as if these people were saved for some higher purpose.
But in reality some people are just lucky for one moment in time and it’s important to be grateful for these moments.
