I am American. I was born in Romania – my father was of German descent, though his father was US-born, and my mother was Romanian. But I grew up in America, and most of my life lessons were learned there. AMERICANS ARE GOOD AT NEVER GIVING UP. WORK HARD AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.
I believe you make your own luck.
IF YOU PUT YOURSELF IN THE RIGHT POSITIONS, THE PROBABILITY OF YOU GETTING LUCKY IS HIGHER. MY DAD, WHO WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY, ONCE WON A CAR IN A LOTTERY. BUT HE DIDN’T THINK HE SIMPLY GOT LUCKY. HE WAS CONVINCED THAT THE DRAW WAS FIXED BY THE GOVERNMENT, just to make him stay. Was he right? I guess we’ll never find out. But if you think about it… How many cars were there in Romania in the 1960s? There were probably a couple in our village, and he won one in a lottery he didn’t even know he was taking part in. It wasn’t like he bought a lottery ticket! It had something to do with his bank account number matching some other number. So, maybe because he
