The quest for Gary - Part 1

We experience luck daily.
Remember that time you found a 10$ bill on the sidewalk?
How about that time you fell down the stairs and sprained your ankle?
No?
Yes?
There’s no reason for that, it just simply did, or didn’t, happen. Allow me to explain…
Remember that time you didn’t find a 10$ bill on the sidewalk?
What about the time when you didn’t fall down the stairs?

“…Are you beginning to understand my point?” the doctor asked calmly, though the patient stared blankly beyond his
desperate attempts to help.
“The fact of the matter is, there’s no reason for the trauma you’ve been through. It could have happened to any person in this world, myself included.”
This caught the young man’s attention. Briefly, he detached himself from the state of ignorance he was experiencing and mumbled a few words of minor
significance. Something along the lines of ‘I understand’. For a short moment, the doctor thought that he might actually be getting through to the guy,
but then something peculiar happened. When asked the question of “Where have you been hiding all this time?”, the man chuckled loudly. With a grin on his face,
he pointed a firm finger at his belt buckle. In the blink of an eye, the man was gone and there was a distinct smell of burning in the room. As the doctor
looked up at the ceiling, he gasped in confusion and rushed outside to witness the unknown protagonist flying away.