Make your own luck

The livelihoods of professional gamblers are based on games of chance, a big if.  The whole tourism industry on a whole operates on a series of big ifs, for that matter the global economy functions in one large "what if" scenario.  Those that take chances are considering risk takers, and those that don't are conservative.

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I feel like such a fool for thinking that people would judge me for something that was ultimately totally beyond my control.  In all honesty, it took someone who didn't know of my illnesses, to show me that it was possible for a person to look past my illness, and care about me.  I don't know if he knows how grateful I am to him for that, and I probably would never have the courage to tell him to his face, but it is the truth.  For someone who has been dealt a series of bad hands the past few years, I feel like Im a card away from a Royal Flush.  

The moral of the story is always be yourself.  I tried to change who I was and become an introvert that stopped taking risks... Its not me.  I tend to be a gambler, because even if it doesn't work out - at least I tried.