Comments on: What A World, What A World…

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:43:21 +0000

The luckiest thing to ever happened to me? Becoming a nurse. Sure, some days I pretty much rue the day I decided to enter this profession but most of the time, I absolutely love the craziness.

Saving people’s lives is a heady thing.

By: Erica

Erica — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:03:37 +0000

I never really have anything real lucky happen to me. Though for me at the time – it doesn’t really seem lucky and more, but when I was like 9 I used to go to this huge American Girl Doll Sale and you had to get tickets. My mom managed to get one really early ticket, and sent me in with a 2 way radio so I could talk to her. I reallly wanted a Felicity doll that year – as she was retired. So I went in and went to the Felicity table and they were all out. I started to walk aaway and the lady yelled after me saying the found one and so I got my Felicity doll and at the time I thought that was about the coolest thing ever that I would be so lucky as to get the last one.

By: L. Smith

L. Smith — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:25:10 +0000

Luckiest thing that ever happened to me: I didn’t drown (because a friend saved my life). I was six, she was ten. At one point I was alone in the pool and just walking across – then the ground was gone and I couldn’t find it. I tried to reach the surface but I kept falling back under. Our moms were nearby, though sadly neither heard me screaming. I remember catching glimpses of my mom just sitting there talking to her friend. That was the worst part because I didn’t understand in those moments that she couldn’t hear me. My friend saw what was happening and dragged me back to the shallow end. If it wasn’t for her…I wouldn’t be sitting here. Now that’s lucky.

By: Jane Y

Jane Y — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:19:37 +0000

The luckiest thing in my life didn’t seem so lucky at the time. I was 11 years old and my family was getting ready to leave Alaska. 6 cold freaking years and we were finally leaving..YAY. My family consisted of 5 kids and two adults. My brothers and I (2 of them, 1 of me) were from a previous marriage so were extremely close. My older brother was my best friend, protector (another story altogether) and confidant. Anyway we were staying with friends from the church as we had already let our apartment go. i decided at the last minute to go spend the night with my best girl friend. We had been friends since grade school and were inconsolable at the thought of me leaving for the lower 48. I wanted my older brother to come with, he’d always had a crush on her but he didn’t want to intrude on our last weekend together. This was a Saturday night. We went to church on Sunday and something was wrong, my brothers weren’t there. Long story short, they had gone “exploring” on our friends property and had fallen into the river. They both drowned. I know with complete and utter certainty that if I had not gone to my friends house, I would be dead. I would have followed my brother to the ends of the earth and many times in the year to follow I wished I had. Now 40 some years later I am grateful. Life has been beautiful even with the ups and downs because I am here to experience it. Luck…

By: Poppy A.

Poppy A. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:17:03 +0000

Several years back I bought one of those lottery scratch tickets…something I almost never do because I basically see them as a waste of money. But I was at the store and had this feeling so went with it and ended up winning $1000 just from one ticked. I didn’t buy any others to get to it either. It was pretty cool.

By: Eric L.

Eric L. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:06:37 +0000

Tracy, a friend of mine played matchmaker with myself and her boss. She told both of us that we had been asking about the other (which wasn’t true). I gathered up the courage to ask her out. She said yes. We’ve been married for nine years this year with two wonderful children.
We were both lucky to have a friend that saw in ourselves what we ourselves couldn’t see.

By: Mandi M.

Mandi M. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:52:45 +0000

I have had a whole lot of what I would consider luck. I’m a 29 year old, twice married, mother of one. I’m also an addict. I have been sober for 3 years now and not a day goes by that I don’t realize, cliché as it sounds, that I’m lucky to be able to write this today.

I was addicted to drugs for 6 long, horrible years. I stole, I lied and I tested the limits of sanity. I push away everything I hold dear and it was luck, with a large side of love and faith, that gave me a second chance.

I recurved a phone call one evening from a friend of mine one evening, she was in the wake of pain and fear like I’ve never known. Crying hysterically, she tells me she’s gotten the needle of her syringe stuck in her arm. Her skin was so tough from the constant abuse of shooting up and her needle so overused, when trying to get a fix the needle snapped and became completely imbedded in her arm. Needless to say, I was in a state of drug induced ignorance but managed to get her to an ER where she was rushed for surgery to have the needle removed.

I was her last call that evening before she dialed 911. If I hadn’t answered, if I’d been unavailable, I would never have had the reality check that I got that evening. It wasn’t even 48 hours I was signing myself into rehab…ready to change my life. It was just damn lucky I picked up the phone.

I have been to hell and back, put there by decisions of my very own. A lot of love, faith, sweat, tears and luck is what keeps me sober and sane. I am the mother, wife, daughter and friend that I am proud of now. All because I answered the phone.

By: book weirdo

book weirdo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:57:18 +0000

I have to say that i havent had many lucky things happen to me the only one i can think of is surviving JV basketball I had that ball in my face so much more than in my hands.

By: Sandy Greer

Sandy Greer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:58:43 +0000

My luckiest moment was…
My two sister’s and I were home alone for the weekend, my parents and grandma were out of town.
It was just past midnight, and I woke up. I tried going back to sleep but decided that it was too hot and stuffy to sleep upstairs in my room. I get up and walk down the stairs to sleep on the couch where it is cooler and less stuffy. Once I was down stairs I saw that the front door was unlocked (including the child lock) and cracked open. I was immediately awake and rushed to shut the front door, ran up to my room to grab one of my many softball bats and I began sneaking around the house to see if there was any weirdo in my house, after a quick search there was no weirdo and my little sister was missing. I woke up my other sister that was still asleep and we woke up everyone (neighbor, grandma, mom, dad) and got to talk to the police.
A few hours later, found my little sister – she had snuck out to see her boyfriend who lived up the street.
She got into loads of trouble, mostly because I had woken up but I was glad I woke up because THE DOOR WAS FREAKIN’ UNLOCKED! Some weirdo really could have gotten into my house, other bad things could have happened and I prevented it.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:21:01 +0000

So far, the luckiest thing that has ever happened to me is getting a partial scholarship when I didn’t even apply for it. It’s lucky because law school is overly expensive & I needed all the help I could get.