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How to turn an ordinary life into a lucky life
You are hurting.
Someone said a bad thing.
Something hit a nerve.
You feel like ignoring all social niceties and smashing the table with a fist.
You feel depressed, and you might not even know why.
Negative emotions can have an immensely strong pull on all of us.
They swirl and envelop, like black mist polluting our souls.
In an instant, the world is a hostile, alien place.
Like myself, we all experience the encroaching black mist.
No one has the privilege of being free from hardship; from life’s thorns.
Life is a moving current. Obstacles that challenge our emotional stability converge on each of us with relentless force.
No one is exempt from this unforgiving torrent.
And yet some of us seem to fall into luck more often than others.
A handful of us appear to flow through with fewer problems.
Some of us enjoy more ‘wins’ than the rest of us.
Those who are able to succeed more often than they lose, are not — for the most part — ‘luckier’ than anyone else.