Born Lucky

_{photo by Chinh Le Duc}

Back in the year 2020, there used to be this guy who would always come to my hostel to spend time with these other guys who were known fraudsters. He basically was learning how to become a better fraudster from these guys and I remember whenever he walked into their rooms, he would see me there, just charging my phone and laptop and basically minding my business.

Fast forward to some few months later after I had traveled home and returned later to school (sometime around early 2021), I had found out that this guy had given his life to Christ and was no longer a fraudster. He made it his due diligence to go to church everyday and I remember how shocked I was.

Funny enough, after he gave his life to Christ, he made sure not to speak to any of the guys that he spent time with during his time of learning how to become a fraudster but for some reason, he always made sure to say hi to me whenever he saw me on the street...maybe this was because he knew that unlike the other guys, the only reason I was always in that room was to charge my appliances and nothing more.

Anyways, fast forward to this year and this guy and I have gotten a little bit closer... Although it is mostly just pleasantries that we do exchange between one another, but it has become a lot frequent, especially in these past few months.

One day, he had approached me and asked if I had a little bit of money to give to him to get some stuff. I had thought it was going to be a one time thing but he has been coming more often than usual, but that's not even the weird thing.

The weird thing is that this guy never comes to ask me for money when I'm broke, almost as if he has a brokeness detector that tells him when I'm broke and when I'm not.

The other day, I was in my room, just cleaning it up when I heard a knock on my door. It turned out it was him and he wanted to know if I had any money to give to him, which I did...but what was even more crazy was the fact that thirty minutes prior to that knock on my door, I was completely broke and had only gotten a money alert on my phone before I heard his knock.

To me, I just feel like some people are just born lucky and he's definitely one of them.. Because it's either that or the spirit of God just tells him when to come ask me for money.