It's odd how things work out...

I'm due to go on a business trip to the US in the next few days, and will be flying to a number of different cities in different timezones, with a relatively tight schedule.

One of the cities I will be going to is LA, somewhere I've not been before. When setting up the meeting and flight schedules, I tried to arrange to get an extra day in LA, so that I could maybe do some touristy things. However it was clear early on that was not going to be possible, so I left it and did not try to "engineer" anything.

Oddly, and without any involvement on my part, at the last minute, the customer I was going to see in LA had to re-schedule the meeting.
The result being that the only way I can accomodate the new meeting time, without rescheduling my other meetings is to spend an extra day in LA.

This is not an isolated event, in fact, this tends to happen all the time: serendipitous events, where I get what I want without trying.

A lot of people who know me personally, believe that my life is really complex (which it is), and filled with adversity (which to some extent it is), and often comment that they don't know how I cope.

The answer as to how I cope is simple: by focussing on these moments of incredibly good fortune, I believe that I live a charmed life, where the Universe conspires to give me Gifts.

And all the other cr*p in my life is just random noise to distract me from realising how blessed a life I truely have.