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| From:  _Xer (Original Message) | Sent: 12/7/2008 9:56 AM |
I'm a lucky man, and think luck has more to do with old age than any other, or possibly even all other factors combined. I'm still alive, and recently have been feeling alive, since getting Wildfire especially. Luck certainly has more to do with old age than any of us wants to dwell on. As for myself, I have lost track of the number of times I've faced death, up close and personal, and lived to tell the story. Just can't remember 'em all anymore.
Expect there's more than me here can make that claim too. That's not even counting the times I took one route rather than another, drove a little faster or a little slower when had otherwise been the case something life-ending might have occurred. I once had a friend, call her Holly, whose head was severed in an auto accident. Have you ever had an accident, and wondered for weeks or months, "what if I'd taken a different street, or, what if I'd been one minute earlier or later?" If you've been in a bad enough accident, it's pretty much a given you've asked those questions.
If I'd eaten less butter, ice cream, cheese, drunk less milk (I loved milk), and had less other high fat treats over the last decades, not to mention a whole lot less sodium, had I eaten more fish and less steak, if I'd only exercised more regularly I wouldn't have had a heart attack, much less a bypass surgery! If my friend in Delhi hadn't insisted I go see his doctor when I thought it was a chest cold making me so weak I couldn't get out of bed, the physical demands of an air flight home would have killed me, if the heart attack hadn't.
Yes, we can do some things to reduce our risk of certain ailments, and even accidents, but there is nothing we can do, or not do, by our conscious actions to dodge all the bullets death shoots at us. How many of the people in the hotel restaurants and train station of New Delhi could have dodged the first hail of bullets from terrorists? Those first victims especially, but even other later ones when trapped could do nothing to insure their survival.
What if you happen to breath the same air in a public place breathed by someone carrying a disease that will kill you? The simple truth is, none of us would still be here now if it weren't for pure dumb luck, and a whole lot of it!
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