What began with these fortunate few, however, is a pattern that increasingly applies to us all.
I had left the station for over a year when the Jim Harbaugh era began and was fortunate enough to remain friends with many talented individuals in the building when the 49ers finally returned to their successful ways.
They were among the fortunate golfers who began their rounds early, before the skies cleared and the winds shifted and howled through the eucalyptus corridors at Riviera, wreaking some havoc on the afternoon half of the field of 144 players.
I was fortunate, though, because he began hitting someone else.
I was fortunate that my puberty began when the first Adrian Mole was published and The Smiths formed.
During much of the region's debt crisis so far, Poland has counted itself fortunate that the troubles began before the country had joined the euro currency union.
As more and more users began flocking to Fling, we were fortunate enough to receive increasing PR and coverage from various publications.
As this momentum began to build, we were also fortunate enough to get serious attention from the "big guys"—The Economist, USA Today and Scientific American [ 13] who all reported on our efforts.
And this weekend, they once again began to reach out to their less fortunate neighbors near Castle Hill Avenue in the Unionport section, offering free coats to blunt the winter chill.
And the AOL team began its presentation by saying that "we are fortunate just to be invited to the party".
