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We all deserve a lucky break now and then.. have you had a lucky break recently? Ever? What was it?

Posted - September 29, 2018

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  • 44173
    Yeah. I got busted for reckless driving and had my license suspended for six moths with work and one day a week chore privileges. When I went to get my license back  they showed no record of it being suspended. Apparently the judge made the paperwork disappear as I was a first timer. It didn't go on my driving record.
      September 29, 2018 9:04 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    Aww that's good.. and I think it's the right thing to do, we all make mistakes. 
      September 29, 2018 9:08 AM MDT
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  • 44173
    The town Barney didn't have anything else to do that day.

      September 29, 2018 10:49 AM MDT
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  • 19942
    My luckiest break was being born in the U.S.A.  From there, all things were possible.
      September 29, 2018 9:19 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    That's essentially an optimist :) I think almost all things are possible :)
      September 30, 2018 10:05 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    When I was about 7, I won a bicycle in a Montgomery Wards drawing.  ( 3 years later it was stolen out of the barn. )  At age 18, I won the first motorcycle race I was ever in. (It was a National drag race)  I found a winning lottery ticket blowing across my lawn. it was a scratch-off worth $2. 
      September 29, 2018 11:01 AM MDT
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  • 10449
    One Time when i was driving home from college, I entered the freeway only to be "greeted" by a bunch of semis.  Not wanting to be around them, I "hit the gas" and went far ahead of them( the speed limit was 55 mph). Unfortunately, what I didn't see was the Highway Patrol car following the semis when I'd entered the freeway... but he sure saw me.  Those red lights in the mirror just give you a feeling of doom.  The officer said he clocked me doing 81 (far short of the 90 my speedometer said I was doing).  After ruining my license he came back and said the he should ticket me for speeding, but since I had a clean record he was going to give me a break.  I sat there and waited until he pulled away before I continued on my  way - doing exactly  55 mph the entire 75 miles back home.  
      September 29, 2018 12:41 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Aww absolutely the right thing to do. I am glad he let you off
      September 30, 2018 10:08 AM MDT
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  • 3523
    Something similar happened to me.  I did a wheelie on my motorcycle when I shifted gears while quickly making a left turn to stay ahead of oncoming traffic.  The lead car, unfortunately was a police car.  Two policemen pulled me over and reprimanded me as they looked at my license.  I was a delivery driver so had a chauffeur/motorcycle driver's license.  The two policemen were rookies and couldn't figure out what kind of license it was.  They admitted to that and said they'd let me go with a warning.  I thanked them and explained to them it was a dual license.  
      September 30, 2018 7:51 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    not yet
      September 29, 2018 4:57 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Sometimes luck can be a matter of perspective 
      September 30, 2018 10:09 AM MDT
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  • 4631
    Recently invited to speak publically and give a reading of my work. I said yes, so I'm now booked for the 10th Dec.
    Came out of the blue - had never imagined it would happen.
      September 29, 2018 10:29 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Part talent and part work that one I'd say.
      September 30, 2018 10:07 AM MDT
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  • 4631
    Thank you.
    Work, yes, have been writing for a while now.
    But still lucky. The person who invited me had heard me reading my work aloud. It was a fluke that he visited our writers' group that day - might never have happened if one of the group hadn't accidentally met him.

    I think work, or rather, sustained purposeful and selective practice is what makes "talent".

    In Bali, every villager is talented. Each village has a specific craft or art; music, dance, sculpture, painting, batik textiles etc.
    The children imitate in play from three-years-old; at five, they start to learn the skills; by fourteen, their skills match the adults.
    It blows the Western idea of talent out of the water - or it did mine.
    In the West, we cripple creativity by pushing kids through the molds of academic schooling. The older the kid grows, the less attention is given to teaching creative skills - mainly because the Powers That Be don't place a high value on the arts or independent thinking. The child's natural lateral thinking and imagination slowly atrophy.


    This post was edited by inky at October 1, 2018 4:31 AM MDT
      September 30, 2018 10:28 PM MDT
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  • 7776
    There are a lot of things I no longer believe in and a lucky break is one of them.
      September 30, 2018 10:11 AM MDT
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  • 3523
    To be purely luck, it has to be something that I had absolutely nothing to do with.  On my recent trip I booked a room at a B&B.  The website said that this particular room was a rare find.  When we arrived at our accommodation, the owner told us she was booked solid for the next two month but had a cancellation just seconds before we requested our room.  It was a great place on the Isle of Skye at a good price.
    I've been extremely lucky in many other, more meaningful ways too but in most of these instances it was a combination of luck (or God if you prefer) smiling on my efforts.  They say success is where hard work and preparation meet opportunity.  That has been very true in my life.
    It's nice to see you on here DB.
      September 30, 2018 7:59 PM MDT
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