One must always be really, truly suspicious when circumstances seem to be proceeding a bit too well, and a chosen path feels a bit too easy to traverse.
There exists an old parable about such things, told across countless civilizations with slight variations but always carrying the same fundamental warning.
Once there lived a peasant whose entire miserable life was transformed dramatically in a single day through what appeared to be extraordinary fortune.
He stumbled upon a basket of quality food near his ramshackle home, appearing as if delivered by providence itself. This gave him sustenance he had not experienced in years of poverty and hunger.
Later that same remarkable day, he managed to witness a noble woman walking through the markets carelessly lose her expensive satchel filled with coins and valuables. Instead of stealing it and fleeing as any sensible desperate man would, he felt an unusual compulsion to do good.
