Do you ever think you’re really lucky?

[AtlasPine]

I do, but I don’t take it for granted and don’t thing I deserve it.

Not hungry

People love me

Not anything special but life hasn’t beaten me down as such.

Other random things make me feel lucky too, don’t laugh but one was needing a new armchair and being able to just buy a chair and have it delivered. It wasn’t even very expensive but I look at it and think it’s not a totally necessary purchase, but I could afford it and live in a world where someone will make this and bring it to me.

I feel I have experienced both signs of the coin in relation to luck.
I lost my dad in his early 50's to ill health and then my mum was killed by another driver in an accident aged 69. So by 44 I'd no living parent or siblings I ever see.
But I'm healthy, live in a house in the country, with a DH who earns well, and two healthy and really smart teens. I'm likely to retire early and holiday several times a year.
The former really makes me appreciate the latter and live for today.

@FoxgloveSummers

No laughing from me! I once cried when a child broke some shoes as couldn't replace easily. Now I feel deep, deep gratitude that I can buy shoes without batting an eyelid.

I feel really lucky, have more than most people, two kids, a husband who is incredibly conscientious who loves me, lovely pets, nice surroundings and am in pretty good health.

The earlier poster who said she was terrified resonated with me. I often worry about life taking a turn for the worse because it’s pretty good and it feels like it can’t last. But many people do have good lives and it does last, so why I worry I don’t know. I suppose the nicer you have it the further it is to fall.

Yes, absolutely.

I mean I/we have stuff in our lives I’d rather we didn’t like DD’s chronic illnesses which makes life tough for her. But there’s a lot sicker kids than her so it could be worse. We have a house, cars, food on the table, I have a well paid job which I love. I have good friends and a cute cat.

And I look at stuff like the recent Afghanistan stuff and think how lucky I was to be born in the U.K.

I also agree that when you feel lucky it’s natural to worry about the good things falling away. But that is anxiety, and all you can do is hope for the best.

Enjoying how many people feel lucky because of their cute/fluffy/big cats 🐈

I know I am infinitely lucky and it scares me really. I have everything I want and more, all my dear ones are healthy and happy, i'm finally in a great relationship.

And I'm only waiting for the other shoe to drop because it feels unnatural for life to be consistently this good. I'm always afraid some kind of tragedy is right around the corner :(

Yes. I have my health (other than a condition thatI have to take daily tablets for, but it doesn’t impact my ability to live a normal life), a.wonderful husband, a comfortable home, financial security, I was able to take voluntary early retirement at 58 two years ago.

I honestly feel so lucky and grateful for my life every day. I’m in a good relationship, expecting my first baby, have a good job, an extremely loving and supportive family and incredible friends. We are about to buy our first house with significant help from parents. I’m so, so, so lucky and completely aware of it - I never take anything for granted!

Nope.
Health issues
Miscarriages
Money worries
Things tend to happen to me -the latest one is the urgent referral for a pretty major health concern wasn’t actually done last month!
I just don’t understand why these things always happen to me.
Even DSis tells me I’m the unluckiest person she knows & that I have a hard life. Feeling happy that I have food in my fridge doesn’t change the rest of the crap.

I am grateful that I do not live in a communist or authoritarian country. I do not take it for granted because I live through that I always put things in perspective in that regard.

What a lovely thread OP. Yes, I do consider that I'm lucky. I have food, a roof over my head (it's not mine, but that doesn't matter - it's still more than some people have) and I can pay my bills. My health is good, I have lovely cats, and I find pleasure in simple things. Every day is a blessing.

I used to think I was unlucky, poverty growing up, absent father, chronic illness... now I think I am lucky. Worked hard but also had the love of my mother, a great husband, lovely kids.... got a lucky break with work about 10 years ago which made a big difference to my career prospects. I'm knackered, but lucky. Currently in hospital and I'm lucky to be receiving such great care. (Lucky to have nhs)...

Yes and all the more so for having very hard times in the past. Every day I thank the good things and people around me. I also know now that the magical moments in life can be created every day- so instead of waiting for them to happen I try to engineer them.

Yeah, I have definitely lived a charmed life. I've had my challenges, but I know we're among the wealthiest people on this planet (even if it doesn't always feel like it!), I've not been betrayed by anyone, nor lost anyone close to me before their time and I'm relatively healthy with no disability or chronic illness. I don't take that for granted as I have a few family members with chronic illness and knew my kids could inherit them, but we have been lucky and although my daughter has a version of one of those conditions, it's a childhood one that she seems to be growing out of and she only ever had a few episodes.

My career isn't stellar but it pays the bills and is enjoyable and low-stress.

DH isn't perfect and can be difficult but we love each other and are committed to making it work - we are both children of successful, long marriages where at least one person is hard work so we have realistic expectations. Kids are lovely, youngest has ADHD and is probably not going to breeze through education like everyone else in our family, but we so no reason he won't do just fine as an adult.

I don’t complain about the weather anymore. Having known too many people die too young, I just feel thankful that I am here to be able to feel the rain on my face.

I've made an effort to try and have this mindset over the last two years and it really has changed my life.

I read a tip on SM a while ago that says change your language from 'I've got to' to 'I get to' and it really makes a difference.

I've got to do the school run becomes I get to do the school run

I get to pay my bills

I get to do the washing up

I get to go to the gym

Makes a huge difference to my attitude

I’ve only ever had the luck of being really unlucky.

I still try to find positives, but I feel like the walking dead inside. Just surviving.

Yes every day I feel lucky and happy to have my family.

Yes, very lucky to have my family, my health and my job.

I am definitely lucky and I love my life.

I met my husband in my teens, had two beautiful children with no problem, have a beautiful home, comfortable financially, health issues so far have been minor thank goodness, family all in good health, lots of wonderful friends. Life is good, I am very blessed.

I am lucky, I have freedom.

We've had many lean times and very dark times and too many bereavements and upsets , but I am lucky that I'm healthy ( for now anyway ) and I have a home.