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bit naff posting this alongside a thread about depression, as real issues do tend to top my own paranoia (imo) but still.
Luck. Are you "lucky"? Myself, I do not regard me as being particularly lucky, inasmuch as I don't find 100 euro notes in my morning shredded wheat box, or winning the lottery, or anything of the material sort. I notice that I tend to be what I consider "lucky" about once a year, where I do *not* miss a flight, or *not* die or just manage to catch a bus.
As of now, I note two occasions in my life where I regard myself as being really lucky, one being getting back with my gf after we'd broken up (not in a sense that I or she was lucky to have me/her back you understand, more in a sense that we saw that we really were for each other and both managed to see it) and the other being getting my current job and managing to keep it heh. Obv as I hold no qualifications of any kind relevant to doing what I do, while I boss people about who hold degrees and things. The luck being that my bosses decided to let me prove my worth and I managed to do just that.
Major stuffs that. Anyway, where is my point. Atm I am peeved that it seems to me that the gods/luck/fate/kismet are/is preventing me from doing something that I want. Ever since I made a mental note to do said thing, it seems to me that events are moving to prevent me doing it. First my washing machine started to break, and when I'd more or less decided to not get a new one or get it fixed (it's not broken enough to not work, I just have to stay near when it's on so I can manually move the dial along the programs) I got a huge and completely unexpected bill. So now my plan is nixed.
Thinking about this, I recall that I tend to have a run of "bad" luck about every two years wherein I tend to miss the bus and the trains all the time, where several unexpected and usually negative things occur that either block something good or are just negative of themselves, etc. Remember me breaking my leg? That was two years ago too. This doesn't really affect my general mood, though I do notice it.
Recent "unlucky" events: my washing machine broke; a car rental company sent a bill to my work completely of their own accord without me having told them to do so and after I had paid the bill myself anyway causing me to get into trouble with the beancounters before I discovered what the heck was going on; I got a huge and completely unexpected bill dated february 2006 (wtf?); a courier lost a package I was expecting and took me bloody aaages to get it back (yes, I did eventually get it which you may count as lucky but I'd rather they'd not have lost it in the first place thus being lucky by first being unlucky doesn't count)
Anyone else have this?
Luck. Are you "lucky"? Myself, I do not regard me as being particularly lucky, inasmuch as I don't find 100 euro notes in my morning shredded wheat box, or winning the lottery, or anything of the material sort. I notice that I tend to be what I consider "lucky" about once a year, where I do *not* miss a flight, or *not* die or just manage to catch a bus.
As of now, I note two occasions in my life where I regard myself as being really lucky, one being getting back with my gf after we'd broken up (not in a sense that I or she was lucky to have me/her back you understand, more in a sense that we saw that we really were for each other and both managed to see it) and the other being getting my current job and managing to keep it heh. Obv as I hold no qualifications of any kind relevant to doing what I do, while I boss people about who hold degrees and things. The luck being that my bosses decided to let me prove my worth and I managed to do just that.
Major stuffs that. Anyway, where is my point. Atm I am peeved that it seems to me that the gods/luck/fate/kismet are/is preventing me from doing something that I want. Ever since I made a mental note to do said thing, it seems to me that events are moving to prevent me doing it. First my washing machine started to break, and when I'd more or less decided to not get a new one or get it fixed (it's not broken enough to not work, I just have to stay near when it's on so I can manually move the dial along the programs) I got a huge and completely unexpected bill. So now my plan is nixed.
Thinking about this, I recall that I tend to have a run of "bad" luck about every two years wherein I tend to miss the bus and the trains all the time, where several unexpected and usually negative things occur that either block something good or are just negative of themselves, etc. Remember me breaking my leg? That was two years ago too. This doesn't really affect my general mood, though I do notice it.
Recent "unlucky" events: my washing machine broke; a car rental company sent a bill to my work completely of their own accord without me having told them to do so and after I had paid the bill myself anyway causing me to get into trouble with the beancounters before I discovered what the heck was going on; I got a huge and completely unexpected bill dated february 2006 (wtf?); a courier lost a package I was expecting and took me bloody aaages to get it back (yes, I did eventually get it which you may count as lucky but I'd rather they'd not have lost it in the first place thus being lucky by first being unlucky doesn't count)
Anyone else have this?