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goobster  ·  3182 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm a _____ (fill in the blank)

"Blessed"

Which is a funny word for a militant atheist to use, I realize, but it does describe my life very accurately.

The most amazing shit happens to me. I get the most incredible opportunities in my life, and they appear - seemingly magically - exactly when I need them.

For years I kept this to myself. But my fiancee began to notice how things just kinda fall into place for me, just when I need it. For example, I have been down to my last penny, with no job, no prospects, every door being slammed in my face, and one week to come up with $1000 for rent. Then, two days before rent is due, someone will pop up out of the woodwork - maybe a job I bid on six months ago, and didn't get - and will be ready to move forward, and have cash in hand.

This happens far too often to be simply coincidence.

It's gotten to the point where, when one of these magical things happens, my fiancee and I will look at each other with that knowing look in our eyes, and smile, and not say a word. "It happened. Again."

You can call it karmic payback for all the stuff I do for other people, you can say "luck favors the prepared", or you can just say people like my blue eyes or whatever, but the fact is that my life is a series of magical blessings that I do not ascribe to a higher power, I never "expect" them, but they happen. And they happen often enough that people notice.

So me? The opinionated atheist? I am blessed.





thenewgreen  ·  3182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay, blessed is a verb though. The question isn't I am ___

it is I am a ___

Need a noun.

But glad that luck befalls you :)

goobster  ·  3182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OooOooOooooohhh! Hmm. That does change things a bit. Lemme see what my wordy wordy brain can come up with:

I am a source.

People come to me when they are lost. Or need direction. Or need some resource and don't know how to find it. Or just need someone to talk to.

People have always sought me out. Either just to talk, or to help them find a solution to something. So I am a source.

b555  ·  3182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ah, the grammar nazis :D j/k

thenewgreen  ·  3182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am definitely not one of those, but in this case it could clearly change his answer in a big way.

b555  ·  3182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

i know, like I said, i was just kidding.