If you thought you succeeded because YOU put in the effort, because YOU were brilliant, because YOU deserved it, THINK AGAIN!

My friend had questions concerning this title. Well I am amazed at the how well I expressed my thoughts regarding fate/ destiny/ karma. I have a great run so far- everything that one possibly wants in life + some more; Only to realise the effect is not always equal to cause or even related to cause. Things have hapened not because we wanted them to but because it was time for them to happen (and a small part of me hopes that we deserved them). I have been humbled enough to think and know that the end results in my life have never been 'result' of my efforts/ hard work. Things could have always swung the other way.
I work in a great organisation and have a dream job, but there are more able candidates than me but I am the one in this role- why?
I am surrounded by people I love and who love e back (this is more important) but there are a million people who are better individuals but do not not enjoy the presence of such people- why?
There are people who work 10 times harder than me but earn 1/10 of what I do- why?

There are people out there who deserve every bit of happiness, contentment, joy and all other positives that life has to offer but are denied their share- why?

Questions like these have effortlessly defeated my ego which says that I worked hard for it therefore I deserve to be happy and successful. But my inner voice knows that success or failure is beyond my control and that things happen because they are destined to.

How am I better, why do I deserve more, what have I done differently?
I do not know but I know better than to pat myself on the back for everything I have.
I cannot say anything more than this. It is for each of you to find for yourselves.