Luck favours the selfless

I don't quiet understand this but its a life lesson worth learning. By letting go of what you want and doing something for others seems to work far better. Today it has happened twice over.

A while back I got free tickets for today to a theme park, and with all the will in the world it became very obvious it was impossible for me to go. Even just hopping around watching my husband enjoy the rides would have slowed him down and ruined his enjoyment. So last week I made the decision to give him both tickets and take a friend. Result being he has come home a very happy and relaxed human. Something he hasn't been for a long time, he got to enjoy the thrills of the rides that even if I was well would scare me into oblivion. Am I jealous, yes I was this morning when he left and then mum went out, so I was on my own, but now after this evening when there has been no rows or tension, no.  It was like a different person coming home so it was the right thing to do.

To kill the immense boredom I suffer when I can't move, I enter competitions. Today like others I have entered a few. One was to win something for a friend, and fingers crossed she does win as she has been the best friend recently and another was a flash competition for a pair of luxury shoes. Now I have another friend who had a rotten day today and she just loves these shoes probably more than I do so I made sure I told her the competition was about happen. What happened next was unbelievable she won and it totally made her night. She gets to choose a pair from the collection I know she loves.

So although today luck hasn't looked kindly on me, it has on those around me. I haven't won anything but I have managed to help improve others days, which is a better prize. I have a love hate relationship with luck, it rarely looks kindly on me when I try to win something for me, but when its for those around me it seems to always work. I guess the answer is there in the riddle, stop being so materialistic and focus on what good I can do for others. I need to look at competitions as nothing more than time killers, and enter the ones others will benefit from as they are the ones worth winning.