Do you think sometimes not being successful early could be a good stroke of luck?

[jennifer_bloom]

There was a super religious engineering student from my school who left another province and was making big money in the oil industry but what he noticed after he became rich was that keeping track of God and staying religious was much harder than it was when he was poor.

He called his Christian friends from engineering on the phone to ask for help staying religious and they said the same thing, that now that they were rich, being Christian was so much harder than it was before.

There was a guy in my bible study in university who came from a refugee camp in Africa and he said when he was poor keeping site of God as so easy but now that he was rich, he struggled with doubt and he had difficulty feeling God in HIs life.

My dad is not religious and he views all my religious activity as a waste of time unless I can somehow profit financially from it, but I think my delayed success could be what spared me from forgetting about God and getting sent to hell after I die for abandoning bible values like honesty and fairness etc...

[DonaldDarko]

Religion might have sprang from hard dangerous times. It's basically superstition. Note that people like sailors are very superstitious, they cling to superstition because their profession is dangerous. They'll believe anything that they think will help them not die. It's a form of madness from fear and anxiety. When the threat goes away the mind heals and is able to think again.

[Xawyx-2]

How can "not being successful early" be a good stroke of luck?

If someone is successful early - that's usually a good stroke of luck.

Unless the person is easily corruptible... in that situation, I completely understand the idea.

[DawnB]

I would call it luck. I would just think I'm really good at what I do.