Saved from car crash?

If something minor “unlucky” happens with me I try to remind myself it potentially saved me from something much worse. One evening last month my car would suddenly not start and I got stuck in the middle of nowhere. The next day the car started as normal. Two mechanics (one looking at it when it not would start and one the day after) could not figure out why it suddenly not would start and then suddenly start. That evening instead of getting frustrated I told myself this potentially saved me from a car crash or something else. I will of course never know if this was the case, but it makes you look positive at episodes you normally could get very frustrated from. There are plenty of cases like this in life where you never will know the alternative scenario/path. Life is different than Monte Carlo simulation; at least in THIS life you only run one path (if we are re-incarnated or borne again that is a different story) and typically we will never know the alternative path.

In a few cases with very high probability we know the alternative life-path. Some years ago I was visiting the town St. Pierre on the French-Caribean island of Martinique. In the same town in an evening in 1902 Ludger Sylbaris ended up in a bar fight and was arrested and locked in a single-cell, partially-underground, bomb-proof magazine with stone walls. The next day the volcano Mt. Pelee flattened the city and killed everyone there, except Ludger Sylbaris. His bad luck? had turned into his luck. He was released for his crime and became a celebrity.