The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.”
“Thank God for that!”
“I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.”
“What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.”
“Good old Watson!(...)

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.