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Chapter 3 - Chapter 2: Religion part 2

Maybe I've had good luck because of God's help. You may ask, why do you think you have good luck? And think I might be pretentious.

Let me explain: As a kid, I've been really innocent and naive and have been bullied and manipulated by girls my age, I've never really felt manipulated though, it's only now that I realised that, I didn't really hate them, even now I don't, I didn't understand they were trying to use me for their benefit.

There was this girl that used me by "being my friend", if I don't give her my textbook that she didn't bring, she won't be "my friend", thinking back on it, that was pretty stupid of me.

But anyways, I think I'm lucky to have this innocent mindset to not be affected by her bullying, since I've seen and heard stories of people having severe consequences of such harmful conduct.

Another point is that I liked this angry bird plush so much, (the blue one) I was staring at it intently, that the cashier gave it to me for free, my mom found it embarrassing to do, and offered to buy another plush.

Was that luck? Was it God that let me be surrounded by good people? The cashier, my family that thinks that I can do great things, my teachers think that I'm smart, and many other people I've met, am I lucky to be the person I am? Is it because of God that I could meet so many good people? That my life hasn't been that bad?

I've seen stories of people being fucked by life, everything was going well, then suddenly, your gf wants to kill yourself, you're going to a mental asylum, you're bashing your head against the wall wanting to end your life.(this is based on a true story)

Okay maybe that was an extreme example, not everyone has to deal with that after all, not saying it won't happen, but I digress.

How about bullying? Or being "cancelled", or maybe the people surrounding you, let's see... Let's use famous people for example, they could be framed for something they've never done and forced to apologise due to the fear of being cancelled, since their whole career and life hinges on having a good reputation.

Yes I'll admit some people have indeed done these wrongs with evidence, now what's the point I'm making, small little things can end up ruining someone's life, you could say something wrong to a specific person at the wrong time and wrong place, or you could accidentally do something you didn't know was wrong, and then your life is fucked.

Saying something wrong on stream, showing your address accidentally, getting swatted, getting reported for no reason, cancelled for having a different opinion from others, many things can go wrong very suddenly, are they unlucky then? Do they not have God on their side? Is God fucking with them?

I honestly have no clue, truth is no one has a clue what they're doing, they just think they know better than others so they show it off to everyone else, so am I lucky to not have bad shit happening to me? Or am I still young and bad shit just hasnt happened to me yet, honestly who the fuck knows?

Maybe I'm not as lucky as I thought, but reading through these stories of other people's lives on the internet, really makes me think I got the better end of the stick. Maybe that's cause of God...