Am I lucky?

There are times when I wonder if I am a lucky person. I don't think I have been born with a silver spoon in my mouth, but yet I've never felt the need for anything either. Well...as I mature in life I guess I am getting the feeling that 'luck' is a relative term. Previously my idea about 'luck' was to get goodies in life for doing nothing at all! But now, with a few years of work behind my back, I guess 'luck' is to get recognized for the work and effort you put in. Ah..I've been through days when in spite of having put in the best of efforts to clear issues and bundling in a lot of proactive thought for future, I have reached alleys of non recognition. And yet, there are those days too, when a casually done piece of work gets accolades from quarters you never knew even existed! Thats when you wonder if Ganesha(Indian God, harbinger of luck) forgets to balances his scales fairly!

Talking about luck, I remember a episode that an elderly pediatrician doctor friend revelated to me. He used to bugged with patients complaining about their children, " Oh my son is not smart enough, he catches the flue too often", "Aah..I wish my daughter were born smarter, she is so poor at math!" And my friend would take out some snaps,of spastic children, of children born with a hole in the heart, and of mentally retarded folks to show them. And he would ask them, "Does your kid look like this or behave like this?" And would say "The greatest gift God has given you is to bless with a normal healthy child, a child who can see the world, call you daddy and mommy with a clear sound and walks on his own feet". How true...I really AM born lucky...I am blessed with every human faculty to make my own roads in life. :-) Guess, anything else that comes on the way is just a bonus!