Luck by design

It's easy to forget how lucky we are sometimes...and when I say "we" I really mean "me" I suppose because you're you and I'm me.

I don't mean I am ungrateful, far from it; I have an amazing life, a sexy partner who I care about and who cares in return, all of what I need and much of what I want, a home, vehicles, health (mainly) and I live in a safe and prosperous country. I'd say that's a lot to be grateful for and I am truly grateful for all of it...and the hard work I've put in to bring it into being of course. I have a gratitude-ethos, no doubt.

What I mean is how lucky I am to have been born in this country to parents who raised me well - as best they knew how - and that I've worked towards being the man I am with the things I have around me in my life based on how they raised me. It was luck (I guess) that caused me to be born here in Australia and not a third-world or war-torn country or to parents who didn't know how to raise me or instill good morals and ethics. Yeah, fucken hell I feel lucky to have been born where, and to whom I was all those years ago.

I'm away from home currently, somewhere far away from cities and people, the society I usually feel quite disconnected from, and I love it...I have time to look inwardly and, of course, time to look around me and feel lucky I'm there...lucky that I put myself there through ownership, effort, discipline, learning from failure and building on successes.

Of course, it's not really luck at all...maybe luck by design, is a better way to describe it, as I have focused myself towards creating my life to resemble the image I have of it in my mind and worked hard to shape it, to design and create it, as close as possible to that image.

Anyway, I've spent far too much time writing this, a whole ten minutes, which has been part of my morning gratitude-thoughts, so it's time I focus my attention on my surroundings, brew my coffee on the fire, get some bacon and eggs sizzling in the pan on that same fire, and get back to living in the real world...and when that world looks like it does in this image...well, it's all good right?

If you have any comments, on designing your own life, how you've done it, why or why not, or any such things then feel free to comment below...or you might just like to comment on the my shit photography in the image I took above...It's shit photography, but I'm a shit photographer so it all adds up .