Marisa Peer describes being hit by a car and credits the compassionate nurse and hospital staff who helped her with shaping how she experienced the accident. She argues that focusing on the good people around you, not just the bad event, changes what you call luck.
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But if you go through life, people are mostly good. You know, I. I was run over in December. This car literally knocked me over, then ran over me. Like, I could say, that's a terrible thing. And it was terrible. But, you know, people. There was a nurse in the street with two other, and they sat next to me, they held me up. They stayed until the ambulance came. So many good things happened, apart from this idiot who wasn't looking, who, in a pedestrian on the street managed to run me over. And then a lot of good things happened in hospital. I met lovely people. Everybody was so kind. And so, you know, you have to believe that good things happen rather than bad. And even when bad things happen, good things happen too. And again, we have to be careful of looking for all the bad things in life, because whatever you focus on, you get more of. So if you can teach yourself to focus on life is good, people are generally good and will help you if you let them. The more you believe that, you know, it's about, like, luck. You know, people say, oh, luck, but people who, you know.