Serendipity

Chances are you could have been aborted

Chances are you could have ended as a miscarriage

Chances are you were stillborn

Chances are you added to infant mortality statistic

Chances are you never had an education

Chances are you never met all those people you met

Chances are you never graduated

Chances are you and your wife never met

Chances are your marriage never survived the first year

Chances are you had no children

Chances are you never had a home

Or even a country, as in the case of quite a few.

Chances are you never read a book

Never smelt a flower

Never saw an elephant in wilderness

Chances are you never climbed a mountain

Chances are you never travelled

Chances are you never made friends

In case you did

Chances are you never retained them

Chances are you never helped another

And in turn had someone help you

Your life is a cornucopia of chances

It would be a pity

If left to mere

Serendipity

So

Take control

Make things happen

Don’t hold back

Don’t hold on

Don’t linger

Don’t quit too early

Hang on

Let go

Drink

Abstain

Earn

Spend

Give more

Take less

Listen a lot

Speak little

Help all

Hurt none

Leave behind a legacy

Let the world

In your honour

Serenade a ditty !