http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584108,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r2:c0.000000:b0:z5

Deborah McDonald won $8000.00 on Ohio's Lottery Game Show Cash Explosion Double Play.
She went out to celebrate her winnings and play some pool with some friends at a local bar. She left the bar and was walking along side the road when she was struck by a car, hit a traffic sign and died.

Now what are the odds of that? The article does not tell much about Deborah McDonald but this artilcle made me wonder what her life had been like. Was she a lucky person or was this tragic episode a good indicator of what her life had been like? There are jokes made, songs that are written and movies that are made about this very thing. For every good thing that happens is there a bad one?

Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people and vise versa - right?
Some would say that is just how life goes. Others would say that we create our own luck good, bad or indifferent. My belief is that everything goes around. Not that we intentially ask for bad things to happen - I don't think anyone sets out to create an atmosphere where they are going to get "paid back" in a negative way. I can look back at my life and see mistakes that I made - and yes there are alot of them - and when something goes wrong I wonder if that could have had any effect on the curent situation. Life is so complicated and since there is not a handy guide that you carry around in your pocket, we tend to stray every now and then from the moral belief system that most would say we should have.

Most of us, I think, try to follow the "Do unto others" philosophy. If we continue on that path the best we can maybe some of the bad luck will be irradicated. For myself I hope that is the case anyway. Again, not knowing Deborah's siuation and not that it would matter anyway, this is a horrible tragedy for her and her family. Obviously the money won is not worth the life that was lost.