LUCK

Do you believe in luck?  Maybe you call it something different; God, the universe, Karma.  I don't know what I believe but I often joke that in a past life I must have been someone very good to deserve the life that I have now.  Some people might think me ignorant for not knowing what I believe in, but for me there are so many unknowns in this world that it seems impossible to believe in any one thing.

On that note though, I believe I was lucky the other day.  Again, some people might say unlucky, but the way things worked out in the end, I like to look at the glass as half full.  Shalom and I were in Tel Aviv last week, and went for a walk after enjoying a little too much Thai food.  We parked ourselves on the benches overlooking the darkness of the Mediterranean Sea and as the mood allowed became distracted with one another.  Shalom then looked up and saw a young man, nothing strange about him except for the fact he looked back.  Upon further inspection Shalom noticed this young man had took my handbag.  Shalom shouted at the kid which startled him and stopped him in his tracts.  Despite the urge to beat the living day lights out of the thief, Shalom merrily shoved him and took my bag back.  Now I was watching this whole thing go down, ashamed how I could get my bag nicked so easily, but also in aw of how stupid the thief was.  There was no way we would have caught him if he started running, and we would have never even noticed him if he didn't look back at Shalom.  And with everything that I had inside my bag (passport, motorcycle papers, my only working visa card, cash, phone, keys...) I would have been hard pressed to get myself out of that mess.  So, I feel very lucky and happy not to have lost my bag.  I also learned a valuable lesson on not being so trusting with my belongings ;)