Lottery

They say you need impossible luck to win the lottery.

I would say I have won three near-lotteries in my life.
- My birth, to parents who, given the context, would turn out to be marginally more open-minded than could have been expected, with a desire to give me as good a start as they could visualise.
- The opportunity to move to Singapore at a crucial stage in my adolescent life. That experience has played a considerable role in shaping my character, and in bringing about my current quality of life.
- Julie.

All that adds up to a nice state of bliss. Touchwood.