It won't happen to me syndrome

We never think that it will happen to us, but it happens so there is a chance it can happen to us.

It drives me nuts now when people think it will never happen to them.  Well guess what I never thought it would happen to me.

 Never once did I think I would ever have a miscarriage, after all I’d already had 2 healthy pregnancies that kind of thing doesn’t happen to me.  Well it did. 

Then I thought I’ve already had the unfortunate luck of having one miscarriage so it won’t happen to me again, but guess what it did. 

It also never occurred to me that I would be one of those unfortunate people whose baby would die after 12 weeks gestation, but again it did. 

I bet that every person that died in some freak accident thought it would never happen to them either. 

These things do happen, so what stops them from happening to you?  Luck.  Pure Luck.  Caution does play a part, but it is mostly luck.  Sometimes these bad things will happen to the most cautious of people who took no risks at all while others who took every single risk have a perfect experience.  So it all has to come down to luck.

Simple pure dumb luck.