by Joseph Malek

Created on: May 10, 2009

It is true that you have about one chance in 13 million of winning the Florida State Lottery. That is, if you purchased a lottery ticket that was sold for the drawing in question and you have the winning numbers. Only you can determine if that dollar investment in your future was worth the expense. Stranger things do happen within our society. Even a poor person has a chance to become filthy rich, even if that chance is just one in 13 million.

Then again, your Parents and you yourself can spend a certain amount of money that will provide an education for you. Sure, some people seem to have all of the luck. The road to your future well being and financial security is filled with many obstacles that you must overcome, in order to achieve what most people believe to be a healthy and a happy way of living.

Some people believe that hard work and the acquisition of knowledge is the best way to insure that they will be lucky enough not to become homeless and die on the streets from the exposure to the elements or simply starve to death. Then again, you could be lucky enough to be killed by a criminal who will most certainly put an end to your suffering.

The point here is that you must be able to provide the necessities of life for yourself and your family. That is, if do have a wife and children to support, as well as yourself. You have, so to speak, made your own good luck. There truly is no pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, but once in a while something does come to you when you least expect it.

The kind relations that you maintained with your Parents and/or your Grandparents might allow you to share a portion of their accumulated wealth after they pass away. On the other hand, as worthless or as useful as you are, you might be lucky enough to be born into a family that is as wealthy as any other family can be and live like royalty, even if you are a worthless idiot. Some idiots are mighty lucky that their past generations made enough money to support them and those that they create for several generations to come.

On the other hand, we so called normal and/or average people have to make our own luck in order to remain healthy and alive. That is, until the time when we are all called to the Hereafter, or to some other place where our spirit might travel to after it leaves our lifeless body.

Is there truly life after death? As far as I know, not one living person was lucky enough to receive that bit of lucky news from some other person's spirit who decided to come back and spread the good news of a better place for all of eternity.

From my point of view, if I am lucky enough to remain happy and healthy right up to the time when I become history or just a fond memory in the minds of my friends and family that is all of the luck that I truly want. We enter this life with nothing and that is how we leave it.

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