The Luck I Didn’t Recognise
The Luck I Didn’t Recognise Sometimes the thing that changes your life is the thing you most want to escape. Denzil Jayasinghe 6 min read · Just now W hen I look back at my life, I sometimes wonder how much of it was planned. The honest answer is: very little. There were decisions, of course. There were moments when I chose one road instead of another. But many of the things that changed my life came from circumstances I had not chosen. Some were good. Some were painful. And some were so painful at the time that I could never have imagined they would eventually lead me somewhere else. I think of the early seventies. I was a young man in Sri Lanka, and the country I knew as Ceylon had changed. The easy confidence of my childhood had gone. There was a feeling among young people that the country was becoming smaller, more uncertain and less welcoming. Opportunities seemed to depend increasingly on who you were, what religion you were born into, what language you spoke, where you cam...