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<blockquote data-quote="bball" data-source="post: 1350906" data-attributes="member: 23752"><p>There are things in this life that a man just has to accept are out of is control. </p><p>Call it luck, blessing, intervention from a higher power, or whatever you will. </p><p>I imagine just about anyone who fools with agriculture enjoys working hard with their hands and their back. Why do it if you dont? So I doubt few here are unaccostomed to hard work and perseverance. And I know from my own personal experience that these 2 can overcome many things in life and are instrumental in success. At the same time, I also know there are forces outside of my control that impact my life (call it luck, cursed, blessed, whatever you have to). I should have died in Tx back in 1996. I drove my truck(60mph) square into a train(50 mph) headed east on a back road to Beaumont to plumb a trailer house. It was just at sunrise, no crossing arms, dog leg in the road, didn't see the train until it was as big as a mountain. Brand new truck, wearing a seat belt. Absolutely destroyed truck. Airbag didn't even go off. I walked away without some much as a scratch. Conductor couldn't believe it. After the RR company invsetigated, they concluded that had I been a split second earlier or later I would have been hamburger. My truck struck the fuel tank on the locomotive and it spun the truck (because of the angle) enough to keep me from getting sucked underneath and drug for a mile. Of course, split second earlier, I get t boned by a 50mph locomotive. Game, set, match. No skill, work or perseverance on my part made that perfect combination of timing and location happen. Quite the contrary. I was working 7 days a week, 16 hour days driving all over the Lone Star state, crawling through raw seweage, fighting snakes and everything else, to get ahead in life. </p><p>I could name a countless number of circumstances, things like war, cancer, etc. but I doubt it should come to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bball, post: 1350906, member: 23752"] There are things in this life that a man just has to accept are out of is control. Call it luck, blessing, intervention from a higher power, or whatever you will. I imagine just about anyone who fools with agriculture enjoys working hard with their hands and their back. Why do it if you dont? So I doubt few here are unaccostomed to hard work and perseverance. And I know from my own personal experience that these 2 can overcome many things in life and are instrumental in success. At the same time, I also know there are forces outside of my control that impact my life (call it luck, cursed, blessed, whatever you have to). I should have died in Tx back in 1996. I drove my truck(60mph) square into a train(50 mph) headed east on a back road to Beaumont to plumb a trailer house. It was just at sunrise, no crossing arms, dog leg in the road, didn't see the train until it was as big as a mountain. Brand new truck, wearing a seat belt. Absolutely destroyed truck. Airbag didn't even go off. I walked away without some much as a scratch. Conductor couldn't believe it. After the RR company invsetigated, they concluded that had I been a split second earlier or later I would have been hamburger. My truck struck the fuel tank on the locomotive and it spun the truck (because of the angle) enough to keep me from getting sucked underneath and drug for a mile. Of course, split second earlier, I get t boned by a 50mph locomotive. Game, set, match. No skill, work or perseverance on my part made that perfect combination of timing and location happen. Quite the contrary. I was working 7 days a week, 16 hour days driving all over the Lone Star state, crawling through raw seweage, fighting snakes and everything else, to get ahead in life. I could name a countless number of circumstances, things like war, cancer, etc. but I doubt it should come to that. [/QUOTE]
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