Well my grandfather is a holocaust survivor, the only one of a family of 9. So i'm lucky to have been born...
I tumbled down the stairs as an infant in a walker after my older sister accidentally left the door to my bedroom open. Somehow emerged with just a small scar above my lip.
A few years later a basketball hoop in my driveway lost too much of the water weighing it down during a party due to many children playing on it. While playing with my friends and cousins the entire basketball hoop began to fall and as luck would have it, land on my head. Got out of that with a few broken blood vessels (blood was squirting everywhere as anyone whose seen a head injury will know) and another small scar.
Not much longer I was diagnosed with skin cancer. Nothing too serious but yet another scare that left me thinking...
In high school my 3 best friends dropped me off at work one afternoon after school. They then decided to stop by a convenient store before returning home and were in a horrible car accident. Luckily everyone survived, although my best friend was signficantly scarred from ear to mouth. I was so thankful all my friends were okay for the most part, but always wondered what would have happened had I been there too.
About a year later I had my own car accident. Was T-boned by a car going abut 50mph right on my driver side door. No air bag went off, both cars were totaled. Me? A little shooken up but went to work an hour later. Theres about a thousand other close calls while driving that i'm sure everyone has had.
To top it all off, throughout high school and college I engaged heavily in drug use along with most of my friends. I witnessed many people I knew go crazy from psychedelics or get hopelessly addicted and lose who they were. Some overdosed and died. I was lucky to have met my first real girlfriend, who, along with my family, helped to set me down a more healthy road.
Weird, this is my first post on reddit. It really helps to put things into perspective thinking about how damn lucky you are, instead of focusing on the bad things in life.