A friend of mine has had a bad year, his wife was unfaithful and they broke up, and then he was made redundant in the middle of a recession. To top it all, he and his 'ex' were tied into a very expensive house build, which they had to complete and then hope to sell without loss in the recession.
He had been long noted for being one of those people for whom nothing ever went badly, everything that happened to him ultimately turned out to be for the best, but even I began to think that his legendary good fortune had failed him for ever......
But last week, out of the blue three prospective buyers wandered onto the site of the nearly completed house build, and were apparently willing to pay a very good price for the house, to the extent that he and his separated wife could both walk away with large profits (instead of a loss) and then he was offered a long contract job in the public sector at more than one and a half times the going rate for the job (Civil servants have no idea there is a recession on, so waste public money as if there was no end to it).
So 'with one bound' he is free ..... suddenly he has a better paid (pro-rata) job than ever he has been in before, and he has every likelihood of working for years as a contractor in the public sector (its a very closeted world, in which getting in is the trick), and having a very large and overflowing bank account from both this job and the house sale. Oh, and he and his 'ex' have 'made up', despite her 'condition'.
Now I find myself a believer once again in the idea that there are 'personal deities', whether that's 'Fairies', 'Angels', 'Small Gods', or a personal Buddha is of no consequence, its just apparent to me that my friend has some sort of personal lucky star under which he wanders.
Me? Well I have him in my lottery syndicate until he dies ......
He had been long noted for being one of those people for whom nothing ever went badly, everything that happened to him ultimately turned out to be for the best, but even I began to think that his legendary good fortune had failed him for ever......
But last week, out of the blue three prospective buyers wandered onto the site of the nearly completed house build, and were apparently willing to pay a very good price for the house, to the extent that he and his separated wife could both walk away with large profits (instead of a loss) and then he was offered a long contract job in the public sector at more than one and a half times the going rate for the job (Civil servants have no idea there is a recession on, so waste public money as if there was no end to it).
So 'with one bound' he is free ..... suddenly he has a better paid (pro-rata) job than ever he has been in before, and he has every likelihood of working for years as a contractor in the public sector (its a very closeted world, in which getting in is the trick), and having a very large and overflowing bank account from both this job and the house sale. Oh, and he and his 'ex' have 'made up', despite her 'condition'.
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Now I find myself a believer once again in the idea that there are 'personal deities', whether that's 'Fairies', 'Angels', 'Small Gods', or a personal Buddha is of no consequence, its just apparent to me that my friend has some sort of personal lucky star under which he wanders.
Me? Well I have him in my lottery syndicate until he dies ......
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