Chapter 19 about luck

About luck (1) Many times, it must be admitted that luck is very important. I'm a lucky guy. When I was born, my limbs were sound and my mind was fine. I have never had any serious illness since I grew up. Although I encountered a car accident during the interview, I was only injured on the flesh. Compared with the photographer who injured the cervical spine, I am much luckier. When I travel abroad, I often go to a country alone, with a sum of cash on my person, and go to a country where I don’t understand the language. Most of the time, it’s not midnight or early in the morning. I still remember the first time I went to Washington. , I flew from Los Angeles to Washington alone at three in the morning. The taxi driver was a black man. I only knew the name of the hotel I was going to. When I came out of the airport, there were not many cars on the road. Because of the time difference, I I was also ashamed to wake up my co-worker in Los Angeles, but for courage and to show that I was not alone, I kept pretending to be on the phone in the back of the car, and I thought he couldn't understand Chinese anyway.

In the past ten years, because of my work, I have traveled all over the world. I think I am really lucky. Even if I go to a place that is very dangerous in the eyes of others, I can always meet good people and not meet bad people, at least not being robbed. , or things like stealing things.I think it can only be said that I am very lucky. I also had bad luck, but in the end it was resolved without affecting the overall situation.At the Paris airport alone, I lost my luggage twice. The first time, until I arrived in the third city, the box that had been crushed and deformed finally appeared in front of me.Fortunately, I have experience, and I always carry important things such as documents and air tickets with me.After experiencing this incident, every time I go on a business trip, if I have to transit and the record of the airport I pass through is not very good, I will put some necessary things in my carry-on luggage.Especially for photographers, I will ask them to bring their equipment with them, and to ensure that they can still shoot even if their luggage is lost.

However, no matter how well prepared you are, there will still be unexpected things.Once, when I transferred from Rome to the capital of Ethiopia, I took an Ethiopian Airlines plane.EgyptAir is notorious for being unpunctual. After a six-hour delay, I finally got on the plane and found that all the luggage racks were full.So the flight attendant said to me, how about I help you find a place to put this box.I slept comfortably on the plane. As a result, when the plane arrived at its destination, I searched the entire plane, but I couldn't find my luggage.I finally found the flight attendant who offered to help me put my luggage. After a long time, he told me that he put my luggage in the luggage compartment because there was no space in the cabin.However, he made a mistake and labeled my luggage to be transferred to a second unknown city.

After he explained, he asked me to follow another person, and he disappeared from my sight.I think.This is a mystery.It has been very difficult to communicate with these French-speaking Ethiopian Airlines employees, and the employees involved have disappeared. Finding a wrongly labeled box is really a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. Prepare for the worst. Fortunately, there are only some daily washing things inside, and we are only two hours away from the meeting interview that is about to start. Just when I was about to give up, my companion pushed me, Our case was found. This kind of thing also happened, because the interview was suddenly decided, and the hotel was not arranged in advance, thinking that it would be resolved when we arrived in the local area.As a result, that trip was to St. Petersburg, Russia. Because of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, when I arrived there, I found that all the hotels were fully booked.This time I was dumbfounded.Looking at the luggage and equipment piled up in the hotel lobby, I really don't know what to do in this place I have never been to.It was almost midnight at that time, but fortunately it was daytime and the sky was still very bright, which made me feel a little relieved.I asked the news official of the embassy, ​​and he said that we were too hasty, and there was nothing he could do.Just as I was about to sit in the lobby with the photographer for one night, a young man I didn’t know came up to me and said, let me find a way to help you solve the accommodation problem.

Later, we became friends.I asked him, why did you help us? He smiled and said, because you looked really pitiful at the time. Many times, it is some people we don't know who help us solve difficulties and become a lucky person.Sometimes I think, why do these strangers help me? To them, I am a stranger, and I can't do anything for them, but why do they lend a helping hand? I think it's because of their kindness, and maybe because they think I'm the kind of person they want to help. Luck is something that is really out of control sometimes.It seems that natural disasters and man-made disasters can be avoided, that is destined.

For other things, it often depends on whether others are willing to help you for a moment.It seems that I catch a plane. Several times, the staff at the counter can no longer handle it for me according to regulations, but most of the time, seeing my pleading eyes and anxious expression, I can always board the plane at the last moment , so as not to mess up my entire itinerary. It was the first time I left Iraq, and the Saddam government had not yet collapsed, so there were many procedures.I lost a form I filled out when I entered the country. This is a very serious matter, and the other side can prevent me from leaving the country.But after 20 minutes of explanation and communication, in fact, for 15 minutes, the official and I talked about many things that had nothing to do with this list. As a result, I obtained the exit permit.

I feel that a lot of my luck is held in the hands of strangers.I have always been grateful to these strangers from the bottom of my heart. To accomplish one thing, ability is of course the most important thing, but you can't lack luck.There are many people with the same ability, but why, in the end, the god of luck favored one of them? About luck (2) I think there are subjective and objective factors.Simply saying that this person is lucky is not fair to this person. It's as if someone said to me, Luqiu, you are so lucky that every big event is your turn. I would say that my luck is due to the accumulation of the past.My luck is that I let others see my abilities.It also made others believe in my ability.

Over the years, I have had a little realization that I treat everyone with sincerity, those I know and those I don’t know. This kind of sincerity will be felt by others from the look on your face and your gestures.And good luck will be a reward.