Luck, fate, dreams that come true

funnythings

Putting aside love,marriage,children,

Has there been a time in your life that good luck has been on your side?
OR

Have you felt fate has played a big part in your life at any time?

OR

has your dreams ever really come true?

We all have our ups and downs in life but along the way!
Sometimes we are blessed with a little tickle,I thought it would be nice to hear some positive stories.

For me buying my house was all the above. for many reasons.
Never having a proper home even as a child,

I have been homeless, living on the streets,children's home,foster care, bed and breakfasts,and 3 care land ladies and then living in married quarters for 9 years.

luck and fate played a big part when I bought my house which was a dream come true for me.

jumpingjackd

Funnythings was feeling a bit depressed reading through some of the other posts so yours is a welcome change! Good luck to you! and hope it continues which I am sure it will! You deserve it!

Lotus-eater

funnythings wrote: »

Putting aside love,marriage,children,

Has there been a time in your life that good luck has been on your side?
OR

Have you felt fate has played a big part in your life at any time?

Putting aside love is a bit difficult, luck and fate were certainly on my side the time I met my OH. It was fate and it was total luck.

Other than that, luck has always been on my side, I was kicked out from home, I found someone to move in with, that led to a job, which led to me setting up my own business years later.

Is that fate, or karma? I know I'm lucky and I know fate will always be good to me :shrug shoulders icon: I just do :rotfl:

When things don't go to plan, I know something else is around the corner, which will be good

GobbledyGook

Mine sounds really silly, and it does lead onto marriage and children and the likes, but here goes.

When I was a teenager I lusted after a pair of shoes in a shop near my house. I saved and saved and saved and then went to buy them. However they were no longer on the shelf. I was gutted. The shop assistant wanted a crafty fag so offered to go and look in the storeroom in case they had an odd pair left.

She found a pair one size bigger than my normal shoe size, but they fitted. :j

It was the first time in my life I'd saved really hard for something that I really wanted and I was so proud of myself. I loved those shoes.

At a disco that Friday this boy commented on my shoes. We got married (and divorced) and have 3 children. I wore the shoes on my wedding day too.

mya_may

I made a friend through work, he turned 80 and also had an operation during the time I knew him unfortunately he didn't recover from the operation.
A while later I was worrying about looking for a job and what I was going to do with my life, basically having a real wobble. I then got a job that I really wanted and was so excited and half way through filling in the forms that you get on your first day I realised it would have been this friends birthday, I was smiling as I filled in the rest of the paperwork


(I know there are going to be people rolling their eyes to that, but it still makes me feel all warm and smiley when I think about it)

desert_rose

Had a hellish year when my kids were very small. Ex left, mum died, living on a council estate next to some dodgy neighbours, flat broke, rock bottom.

Decided I had two choices, to give up or to try and deal with everything and give my kids the life they deserved.

Fate or luck...I don't honestly know, but I do know that determination, self belief and sheer bloody mindedness can move mountains.

And it did!

Gigervamp

This is going to be long, even though I'm trying to keep it short!

When my hubby and I had only just started living together, he found out that his work was going to close. He then got offered a job but it meant that we would have to relocate 150 miles away.

I *felt* that he should take it even though we didn't really want to move there. So, he did.

It was tough, even though we had friends there. My son was getting bullied by the little !!!!!! who lived along the road, and we were getting stones thrown at the windows, plants knicked from the yard etc, and when hubby's 12 month contract didn't get renewed, he was unemployed and despite having all the relevant qualifications and experience for the jobs he applied for, he didn't get one. (This was back in 2001)

I'd had a £1000 inheritance from my Nan which helped to pay the rent for a while because HB told us that it would take 6 months before our claim even got looked at, but it was rapidly running out.

Cue hubby's family stepping in and offering a house that they owned and was currently empty, in Wales, where until we'd moved to Stoke, hubby had said he didn't want to go back to for a long time!

By this time hubby couldn't wait to get back to Wales!

A bit of back story, I first came to Wales when I was a child and I loved it. Didn't come back again until I was with DS2's dad, for a holiday and then a few weekends away, and I felt like it was home. We were looking to move here, but it never happened.

So, I feel that *fate* not only got hubby and I together, but gave him a *nudge* to get him back home. He needed the crap experience in order to appreciate and come back to, his place of birth.

Just a shame that I had to endure it too. :rotfl:

duchy

I do believe you to some extent you make your own luck and that often luck is simply saying yes and taking a bit of a leap rather than staying in our comfy rut.

Debs1968

Mines a Luck story.

Last August my daughter (10) and I were having a cuddle on the sofa whilst watching tv. She leant back against my chest and it hurt. Two months later (I know, I know), I finally plucked up courage to go to my GP. Two weeks later I was diagnosed with Grade 3 IDC breast cancer and was told I had had it for some time. There was no lump so I would never have felt it during a self examination, instead it was a mass that was now 10 x 7cm big. I was told I had to have radical treatment and would need the full works ie. chemo, mastectomy and radiotherapy followed by Herceptin for a year. Last Monday (seven months after diagnosis) three weeks after my mastectomy and full node removal, I was told the chemo had worked and had "melted away all the cancerous cells". This result is only achieved in 17% of people who have chemo. My friends and family have been amazing all the way through. If it hadn't been for that cuddle with my daughter.......I feel so flaming lucky.

Debs

Bitsy_Beans

I am not sure I believe in luck per se but I do believe successful people are sometimes prepared to take a risk and a leap of faith.

ETA I am enjoying the sight of a positive thread, makes a fantastic change

jackomdj

I am going to sound odd ...but as a child I had a few dreams that then happened the following day. Nothing major, I dreamt about going to a river and it had a whirlpool which we then saw. I dreamt about driving past a house with horses where a relative lived, we did and my Dad told me that my Uncle lived there years before (no photo's so I culdn't have known). There were others too...