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Originally Posted by LWJ
Well heck.
Yeah. I'm lucky.
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Great post.
My Son got married yesterday, I just got back. My wife and I took separate cars because of logistical needs of folks flying in, wedding preps, etc. in West Virginia, very close to Pittsburgh. She'll be home a a few hours.
She took our daughter and her fiance to the airport in Pittsburgh.
Amazing experience, so wonderfully done between families that knew what we were seeing: A union of equals, of peers, a melding of talent and love.
That said, my son wanted a commission as an Army Officer and went to VMI on an ROTC scholarship to attain that goal. His aims post commissioning were to go do things I could not imagine trying.
Lost his left eye to injury, lost his commission. He never complained.
Bad luck? If there is good luck, most assuredly there is bad luck: Yang and Yin so to speak. Could have been, but...
His grades at VMI were great (the preparation part of luck) and he went to law school post injury and graduation from VMI and went to work...where he met his now wife: From the end of a dream to the start and husbanding of a new one.
To me, "luck", both kinds, are tests of humility, we learn from both if we are honest with ourselves.