As we're often told, so much about life tends to be a matter of perspective.
On any given day, two people will experience the exact same situation and come away with different takeaways on how it affected their life. And there are certain factors in the context of a given situation that make it seem so much different from others like it.
For instance, the last thing we would normally feel after a tree falls over and crushes our cars is "lucky."
But it would be hard to feel any other way if we experienced a harrowing incident that befell one Alabama man.