by Kiran Bhave
Financial Freedom Director
AS-44.com
How lucky do you think you are? Who do you think is the luckiest person on Earth?
Is it Mr. Ambani or Mr. Warren Buffet, who have an enormous amount of wealth?
Or is it Mr. X in Okinawa, Japan who has crossed 110 years of age and is still leading a healthy life with no illnesses?
Or is it that poor unnamed child on the street whose parents have abandoned him, but for no reason is smiling brighter than you – who is watching him from your air-conditioned car?
You are living a comfortable life. You have a home to come back to, a family, bank balance. Despite that, you cannot smile as worry-free as that child.
You cannot smile because you are getting late for the office, although you’re leaving early to attend that critical client meeting that will bring millions to the company. You are stuck in traffic with no range, unable to contact anyone to tell them you’re running late or instruct them to start the meeting without you. In such a dire situation where your job is at stake, how will you smile?
Now, although you probably can’t decide who is the luckiest among the three, you will surely say _you_ are unlucky.
There are many such situations life throws at you.
You are leading a very healthy lifestyle, people are complimenting you, perhaps envying you for being so healthy and suddenly you are diagnosed with a dreaded disease that is only seen in people who make poor lifestyle choices. Now you cannot even face those friends or share with them that you are diagnosed with such a disease for the fear of what they would think?
How can you call yourself lucky when you are faced with such situations day in and day out?
But wait, are you saying that you are unluckier than even that poor child who doesn’t even know if he get food tomorrow? Do you really believe that that homeless, orphan child is luckier than you?
Friends, I want to reveal a secret to you all. Whether you believe it or not, *YOU* are the luckiest person on Earth, just like *I* am the luckiest person on Earth. 😂
Now you’ll say “Stop with the jokes, Kiran. You don’t know anything about my life” or “You don’t have any clue about what I am going through right now” and so on.
I am sure you have tough problems at hand to solve, you may be in adverse situations and life may not be as easy as poets make it seem. But that doesn’t mean you are unlucky.
Let me elaborate. When I say I am the luckiest person on Earth, I don’t mean I only have positive experiences. But, even in adversity, I believe I’m the luckiest. This is because my circumstances could be even worse than they are now. This mindset of being the luckiest gives me the strength to recover from my current situation quickly or the courage to accept the condition, no matter how grave the situation is.
Let me give you an example. About 6 months ago, when I bent down to pick something up, a sudden unbearable pain broke in my lower back and I collapsed running into the bed. There was no comfortable position where the pain would become endurable. Even a slight movement multiplied the pain a 100-times. Going to the hospital in an ambulance was out of the question, as I was unable to move my body. After my wife arrived three hours later, she called the doctor and he sent a nurse with a painkiller injection, but there was no relief. So I spent 2 days at home, before finally getting admitted to the hospital.
Now imagine how much worse it could have been. It could have happened outside my home. My daughter was with me at the time, but it could have happened when I was alone. The week before I was at my native place enjoying the fields. Imagine it happening over there. In what way, can I complain I was unlucky?
I believe strongly that there is an unknown higher power who always takes care of all of us unconditionally. You must believe in this theory, acknowledge it and accept its decisions as what life throws at you are for your betterment only.
Now finally to answer your brain’s question, there can only ONE luckiest person on Earth, so how can everyone be luckiest?
To answer this, luck is subjective. It is not quantifiable. Someone said very beautifully that there is only ONE most beautiful child in the world and every mother has it. Luck should be viewed the same way.
So know that YOU are the luckiest person on Earth.
Live a miraculous life ahead.
Wishing you pure happiness!
-Kiran Bhave
Financial Freedom Director, AS-44.com
19 March 2023