Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to get a result, and sometimes everything works out literally by itself. But in both cases, you should not write off luck as the final touch to achieving the goal. The heroes of this article shared stories exactly like this.<\/p>\n
1.<\/p>\n
My car broke down on a 2-lane highway in the middle of the Appalachians, 20 miles from the closest city and with no cell reception. The first vehicle around the bend was my grandfather, who lived 3 hours away. He had randomly decided to go on a weekend trip to the mountains. From breakdown to being picked up was less than 5 minutes. It felt like fate had mapped out the entire route for us.<\/p>\n
2.<\/p>\n
My mother-in-law gave me an old antique sewing machine for my birthday. My husband laughed, but I liked it. And 5 years later, he left me\u2014for a young mistress. My husband, a lawyer, took away our car and flat.<\/p>\n
When my mother-in-law heard about it, she called me and invited me over. And then she confided in me that there were real diamonds inside the machine. They were left by her grandmother. She apologized for her son and invited me to live with her.<\/p>\n
And you won\u2019t believe it: we moved to France, bought a house there with the money from the diamonds. She\u2019s a marvelous woman. It was as if the universe had replaced one betrayal with a far greater gift.<\/p>\n
3.<\/p>\n
I visited my school teacher, haven\u2019t seen her for 6 years. We chatted, she told me about her daughter. And I was like, what daughter? She only has a grown-up son.<\/p>\n
She says she adopted a girl. She took a new class and there was a girl who didn\u2019t have a notebook or stationery. The teacher told her, \u201cTell your mum to buy this and that for school.\u201d And then all children said, \u201cShe doesn\u2019t have a mum, she\u2019s an orphan!\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl turned out to be modest, obedient, diligent. Her mother had disappeared a long time ago, and her grandmother-guardian sent her to the orphanage. The teacher would bring her a beautiful notebook or give her something to eat. So they became attached to each other.<\/p>\n
And one day the girl asked her, \u201cAre you my mum?\u201d The teacher didn\u2019t even know what to say. She told her husband at home, so they decided to adopt her. She\u2019s been living with them for 5 years, everything is fine. I\u2019m so happy for them! Fate seemed to conspire to give the girl the family she deserved.<\/p>\n
4.<\/p>\n
Took the wife out for her first fishing trip, she tries her first cast, a terrible effort. The lure bounces off the rock we\u2019re standing on and falls into the water 6 inches away from our feet. And immediately into the mouth of one of the biggest bass I\u2019ve ever seen. I got skunked that day, with my decades of experience and expensive gear. Luck had clearly picked a favorite.<\/p>\n
5.<\/p>\n
I went to the supermarket to the other end of the city to buy chocolate that I couldn\u2019t find anywhere else. When I arrived, it wasn\u2019t there either! The seller said that the last time they had it was a year ago.<\/p>\n
I made a fuss. Why did their website say that it\u2019s in stock when it\u2019s not?! Angry and upset, I left with nothing, I only wasted petrol.<\/p>\n
I came home and accidentally found the same chocolate in the bottom drawer. The one who seeks finds. Sometimes, even the universe hides small treasures just to test your patience.<\/p>\n
6.<\/p>\n
In my third year at university, I was literally a couple of points short of a good grade. This would have helped me keep my scholarship. The teacher seemed to sympathize with me, reminded me of all my past merits, but I was still a little short.<\/p>\n
Suddenly he asks me to turn my back, runs his fingers over it, and asks, \u201cHow many cats do you have?\u201d I say that I have 3. And he says, \u201cYeah, I see the fur on your jumper.\u201d And then he gives me the necessary grade! It turned out that he is very fond of animals and often helps shelters. It was as if fate had disguised itself as cat hair.<\/p>\n
7.<\/p>\n
Many years ago I was totally broke, even working 2 jobs. I would eat macaroni and hotdogs or tuna every night. I couldn\u2019t afford to put gas in my car, so I\u2019d walk to my job.<\/p>\n
One evening, while walking home in the dark around 11:00 p.m, I saw a $50 bill on the snow. After picking it up, my immediate thought was I could buy groceries, but I worried that another person might be as broke as me who lost the money. So I stood in a field for an hour freezing thinking the person who lost the money would come looking for it, but they never did.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t begin to tell you how much finding the $50 impacted me. Not only could I eat but put gas in my car. It seemed my life changed at that moment, which it did. It changed my thoughts; opportunities began to appear, all because of one small twist of fortune.<\/p>\n
8.<\/p>\n
I went on holiday with my husband to a faraway land, checked into a small but very nice hotel overlooking the ocean. The first night we met a nice older couple at the hotel. Toward the end of our conversation, we found out that they were the owners of the place and offered us to move into the suite that was available.<\/p>\n
We thought there was a trick, and it\u2019s not for free, but the evening before departure, when the owners came to say goodbye to us, they said that we reminded them very much of themselves in their youth. I came back from holiday pregnant, so I don\u2019t even know when we\u2019ll be able to visit them again. Life has a strange way of rewarding kindness with generosity.<\/p>\n
9.<\/p>\n
My mother gave me a very nice necklace. One morning I went to scratch my neck and I didn\u2019t feel it. I guess I didn\u2019t put the latch on properly, and it fell off, so I got super bummed out because it was really nice.<\/p>\n
A few hours later, I found it in my shoe. It fell down my shirt, down my pants (with a belt), and into my left shoe, which had been tightly laced. Luck hides in the most unlikely corners.<\/p>\n
10.<\/p>\n
Applied for a job that was way out of my league and the pay was more than twice what I was making at the time, and included pension, full benefits, all that good stuff. I showed up quite early for the interview, and had some time to kill, so I sat in the lobby reading some industry magazines.<\/p>\n
One article was about the top 10 threats to this industry, which I made a point of reading and soaking in as much as I could. Eventually I get called into the interview, and everything is going okay for the most part. This industry and role are both new to me, and I think it may have shown during the interview as a weak spot, but then I get asked, \u201cWhat do you see as potential issues within our industry\/business.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was so excited I almost jumped out of the seat, and went off in great detail about everything I had just learned. The interviewers were very impressed, and little did they know that had I been asked that exact same question just 30 minutes earlier, I would have had nearly nothing to say. I got the job. Timing was everything.<\/p>\n
11.<\/p>\n
Today, when I went outside, I immediately noticed an old lady who was calling for someone. I approached her, \u201cHello, have you lost someone?\u201d \u201cYes, my dog. Her name is Lina.\u201d Well, how could I not help?<\/p>\n
The 2 of us walked around the area, but couldn\u2019t find the dog. I offered to print and place posters. We went upstairs, she gave me a photo of the dog and I went to the copy center. I put up posters on every doorway, and then I heard barking behind me \u2014 that\u2019s when Lina was found. I guess she saw the poster that she was lost. Sometimes small efforts have instant miracles.<\/p>\n
12.<\/p>\n
My husband and I were on a plane, and we were given the aisle seats in the middle part of 5 seats, and also in different rows. Well, it\u2019s a 4-hour flight, we\u2019ll get by without each other. Then a guy from my husband\u2019s row comes up to me and asks to change seats. I agree, we sit separately anyway, what\u2019s the difference.<\/p>\n
My husband is on the outer left side now, and I am on the right side. There are 3 empty seats between us. And you know what? Nobody was seated in them! So, we raised the armrests and lied down there, just the two of us! Luck sometimes creates perfect little pockets in life.<\/p>\n
13.<\/p>\n
Found \u00a3160 in cash on a river bank, while I was discussing how I was too broke to afford a festival ticket with my girlfriend at the time. No idea how it got on the river bank, far away from the town. River bank is the wrong kind of bank to deposit your cash. Still, that day, it felt like fortune smiled directly at me.<\/p>\n
14.<\/p>\n
One day I decided to do a general clean-up in the attic and found a box of my childhood stuff. Among them was an old photo album. Leafing through its pages, I saw a picture of my best friend from kindergarten and me holding hands and laughing. We had long lost touch, but the memories of those days gave me warm feelings.<\/p>\n
I decided to find her through social media, and I did! We texted and agreed to meet at a cafe. When I saw her at the table, we both couldn\u2019t help ourselves and cried with joy. We talked for hours on end, reminiscing about our childhood and discussing our current lives.<\/p>\n
It turned out that we still had a lot in common! So now we communicate and see each other regularly, just like in the good old days. Some connections are never truly lost.<\/p>\n
15.<\/p>\n
2 months before the wedding, I found out that I couldn\u2019t get pregnant for medical reasons. My husband wanted children. I honestly said: either we break up or never reproach me with this, it\u2019s not my fault. He said he loved me and we\u2019d manage.<\/p>\n
But he reproached me every time we quarreled. I forgave him. Then a lot of bad things happened, so I left.<\/p>\n
And then it turned out that my doctor with a degree was just earning money on me. It\u2019s bad enough, but I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t have a child with my ex-husband. It\u2019s fate, quietly protecting me from a future I couldn\u2019t see.<\/p>\n
16.<\/p>\n
My son was 6 months old and needed a liter of milk every day. But the allowance was barely enough to live on. I\u2019m walking, thinking about it. Suddenly, a bloke comes up to me:
\n\u2014 Hi! Aren\u2019t you scared to walk alone at night?
\n\u2014 No.
\n\u2014 I\u2019ll still walk you home!
\nI condescendingly said nothing.
\n\u2014 Why are you in such a hurry? Is your husband waiting?
\n\u2014 A baby.
\n\u2014 A baby?
\n\u2014 Yes.
\n\u2014 Do you feed it with your own milk or cow\u2019s milk?
\n\u2014 Cow\u2019s milk.
\n\u2014 Oh, I deliver milk from the countryside. It\u2019s not skimmed yet, for the factory. I\u2019ll bring it to you. It\u2019s better than shop milk.
\n\u2014 How much a liter?
\n\u2014 Nothing.<\/p>\n
The next morning, he did leave a jar of milk on my doorstep. It went on like this for 3 months. He never once came into the house, not even for a cup of tea.<\/p>\n
And at the beginning of April, I got a job in the editorial office of a magazine, they paid me in advance. And the next morning, there was no milk on my doorstep. My milkman disappeared. Melted away like spring snow. Luck, in its own mysterious way, had quietly guided me to stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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