I should be so lucky!

I got pregnant at the age of 18 and had a beautiful daughter! We thought she was perfect until she turned 4 months and we realized that she wasn't following anything with her eyes. We found out that she has Optic Nerve Hypoplasia (basically, she's blind), but she is the happiest little person I have ever met. I don't really think anything has to do with luck. Having a blind daughter is not lucky at all. Neither is having a husband that doesn't work and plays WOW all day, but you have to play the hand you were dealt. God wouldn't put any obstacles in your life if he knew that you couldn't overcome them.

Hi humbug, Oh yes I count my blessings daily. I have learnt a lot through some of my struggles and it is the life events that have happened that have given me strength. It also helps me to be able to help others that are experiencing something similar to what I have already been through. Huggles. Ellie :D

Some of us have more rockier roads than other to traverse in life and if we are lucky enough to have close friends, companions and hope along the way we can navigate the rocky roads to put us on a safer path. Someone once said to me we are only given what we are capable of handling, but I am more of the believer of what doesn't kill us makes us stronger and if we can struggle through this crazy little thing called life and find happiness en route then we need to grab onto it, grab every opportunity, we only get one shot of life, gee I sound like I am slipping loads of cliches in. I like to think after 9 years of troubles my life has changed for the better. I have two goals that I wish to achieve this year my friend, getting back to work and getting my own place, I am filled with positivity, hope and happiness, for the first time in ages I can say with relish that my confidence has come back and slowly and surely my self esteem is rising. I think it's about positive mental attitude and I want to succeed I want to turn my life around and do it for ME. One final cliche, I apologize but experience really does come at the wrong end of life, and if I knew now what I knew then I think I would have avoided two nasty rocky roads in my life but then I wouldn't be me would I?

yes, we all haveour problems. Your brother has had more than his share of them. I'm so sorry for the loss of the baby. It's very hard to lose them of all the babies when they leave us. We have had our problems which I won't go into but all through life we had had huge obsticales to over come. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

More yes than no although I'm not in the happiest place right now.

Yes I do... and I marvel at people who are even luckier than I am. I am super lucky to have a wonderful husband and a darling baby boy. We have a little yellow condo that we call home. It is very cozy and fits the three of us perfectly. Sometimes I drive down the streets of a nearby community and look at the big homes with many vehicles parked out front. It seems like many young couples with little new born babies are much luckier than I am. I wonder about their success, but do not envy them. I'm perfectly happy in my small little home. I can't imagine a happier home. I feel truly blessed everyday.

i can't say that i consider myself to be lucky in life... but i always try to be grateful for what i have and what God has given to me... i believe that His blessings are abundant and sufficient for me and i am quite content with what i have now... i try not to be greedy in this life and just be happy with what i have... i believe that whatever things happen in my life whether it is good or bad, it is in His hands and they all happen for good reasons... take care and have a nice day...

I do consider myself lucky. In he sense hat I dbeter count my blessings than grumble about the things that I do lack. Up till now I am healthy and I can work, I have a stable job. I have aloving family, an adorable son. I am not saying that my marriage is rosy, i has its ups and downs like anyboyd else. We have our disagreements.. I hope htat you manage to settle with someone who can really love you and your kids. You seem a very lovable and warm woman.

I am very very unlucky in life. Nothing good has occurred to me. Till date from childhood, I had been always unlucky. Even in small cases, luck never favoured me. I only have very good parents. Nothing more than that. In career very unlucky despite having an excellent educational background and marks all throughout.

hi humbug25...it's great that you love your children despite the disappointing relationship with your husband. i don't have it easy but i'm getting by. as long as i can pay my bills and do some things i enjoy i'm better off than many people and can be considered rich. so i'm glad that i'm not worse off.

Actually, i'm not lucky but i'm blessed to have a wonderful hubby and family.. There are still things that i'm not grateful for like my poor health condition which has been bothering me for so many years.. I'm praying that God will grant me complete healing/miracle.. Good health/miracle is all i'm asking for.. material things? i don't need them because i'm already happy and content with the things i have right now..

Hello humbug25! I am very sorry for what had happened to your brother. His life story is like a story on a book. I am glad that he was able to cope all the bad things that had happened to him. I consider myself very lucky. All my life, I have experience only the good things. I mean, I have some down moments too, but not that bad compare to others. Just simple things actually.

No, not lucky. I would have to say that I made my own luck in my life by hard work. I have always worked hard but looking back I can see that in my deepest moments of despair a ray of hope was given to me. This happened every time and so many times. I am sorry for your brother and wish that he could get to see his girls. Perhaps because he has this type of personality that he is able to cope with it all. What a pity that his children cannot see their cousins. I do hope that it works out o.k. for him

Wow, Had anyone of you ever stopped to think that maybe you don't choose your significant other wisely. Anyways Personally I consider myself very lucky. I am Happily single ^_^

Yep! My motto is "Life is good, live it". I too had a bad marriage, but I can top your 3 wonderful children. I have 5! All grown, all productive members of their community, all loving and respectful to both their parents. There's always someone who has it worse than I do. Most of the time I don't have to look very far to find at least one. We all have problems but how we view them is what makes life different for each individual.

I by no means consider myself to be lucky, but I don't complain about my problems either. All my life I've been abused in various ways, watched my family slowly break into tiny little pieces, dealt with an eye condition which has caused me to gradually lose my vision, been backstabbed by people I thought were friends and learned not to trust anyone, and a multitude of other negatives. So, I do not consider myself lucky except for one thing. I have a loving man, the only person in the world I can trust, and that is more than enough for me. I have tons of problems, but unlike some people, I don't throw a temper tantrum about them.

Well I believe that we make are own luck, but figuratively speaking yes in some ways I consider myself lucky, to spite the rough roads Iv had because Iv been blessed in other ways with my wonderful family and the few talents I have and just living everyday and having hope for new beginnings, and even though I still have quite a few hurtles to climb I still feel blessed.

I have always seen myself as a very unlucky person. In every aspect of my life. My features, I feel I was unlucky and have to deal with skin prolems. Im only 26 and I have already had blood clots in my lungs twice, I always seem to come upon difficult situations in life and most times I seem to have always made the wrong choices and never know until later in life.

Well I never consider myself to be lucky in life,life seems normal to me and I like my life.

Well no, not lucky. I consider myself Blessed. I have 7 children, 3 are grown. I have 3 grandchildren. Even though my life is not without it ups (which there are a few) and downs (which there are more of these), it is better than i could have asked for in most ways.