Fortune or karma

[Padthaispecial]

We have all met them, the person who seems to drift through life with things going their way. To the point they brag about it and have an air of smugness.

Yet many believe everyone gets their share of good and bad fortune. It just happens at different stages of life .

What is your view?

My view is it’s very much dependent on your attitude.

Some people are always the victim and negative, they could win the lottery and still moan about it. snapper to have nothing but bad luck, because they always find a way to be negative about everything in their lives. Others are very positive, glass half full, so they appear to always have good fortune/luck because they see challenges as experiences or opportunities rather than failures, and are thankful when things go their way

Karma doesn’t exist, cause and effect does.

Absolutely this. I have a good friend who, looked at objectively, many people would view as objectively 'unfortunate'. She had a very aggressive cancer in her 30s, had to give up a corporate career, have long course of chemo and a double mastectomy and then, just as she was recovering and trying to get a new career off the ground, was in a bad car accident in which she was seriously hurt, and which took years to go through the courts to compensate her. She was priced out of the city she was living in, and ended up buying a small house using the compensation as a deposit in another part of the country. Shortly after she moved in, a natural disaster structurally damaged the house and she had to live in a rental while it was rebuilt, having lost most of her belongings. She's single, childfree and in her 50s, so no sharing of the load.

But she's a strong, confident, positive, grounded individual, with a gift for friendship and connection, a genius for starting community initiatives and bringing people together, and, while she'd be the first to admit it's been a gruelling few years, out of all my friends, she's one of the ones who I think has evolved a life that basically suits her perfectly. She's certainly not someone I see as 'unfortunate'.