Darwin commented a couple of weeks ago about my poor luck and I'm not sure many people realise how bad it really is but I think I have to be a contender for the unluckiest person alive. No? Seriously, I should start writing all this stuff down.
The comment was due to a neighbour burning down our back fence just after we'd cleared the garden, she managed to melt the compost bin which was just starting to compost, and all but kill the tomato, bay, corn and spring onions.
My living situation is a good one too, I moved to London in October, had an illegal eviction a week before christmas causing the loss of 70% of my belongings, moved back to London in february was resident for one month before the new agents told us we had to move out because of terrible damp, found out they were lying and had to move anyway. Jobs, I apply for hundreds, I get nothing. I've been waiting to hear about a housing claim for five months now (the average time it takes to settle is four weeks..)
Yesterday I went to look for a store that sells filled pasta for less than most supermarkets. I copied the map from the internet and set off. the map was pretty misleading so I ended up walking two miles in the wrong direction in the middle of a thunderstorm before finding out the store was in the opposite direction than that stated on the map. Seriously.
and today? TODAY? I went to the bathroom and as I locked the door the entire locking mechanism fell out onto the other side locking me in. I had no smokes, no book, no phone, nothing. The only window is so small I can't even get my head out of it. I tried to fashion some sort of screwdriver out of razors but the last screw wouldn't budge and my make shift tool fell apart. With one housemate on holiday and with the other one not keeping anything like regular hours I could have been locked in there overnight. At minumum it would have been the next four hours.
I kicked the door in. *sniff*
So where do you stand on luck? Do you have bad luck? good luck? does it come in cycles? is it a load of nonsense?
I'm slightly superstitious.....I throw salt over my left shoulder if I spill it, and don't walk under ladders (that's just commonsense).
As for luck, I think I'm pretty lucky really. I remember getting a weeks notice from a job, but already had an interview lined up, and even though there was more pressure, got the new job. That despite there being a difference of opinion between the people who interviewed me. Maybe it wasn't luck, dunno.
Isn't there a study that shows people kind of make their own luck by being more aware and positive (sorry Tre)
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Isn't there a study that shows people kind of make their own luck by being more aware and positive (sorry Tre)
Nonsense. I live with the most positive person in the world ever, some of his positivity has rubbed off on me and some of my bad luck is affecting him! I've been looking on the bright side for months now and still everything falls apart around my ears. I had one really cheerful great day and the next day I got bitten by insects which ended up in bites so bad I had to go to hospital and take antibiotics. I got one financial thing sorted this week and found out I have an interview next week and managed to find the best sale ever which put me in the greatest mood, got my sleep patterns normal and what happens? The two computer programes I need to work have been crashing my system all day, I got locked in a bathroom and there's a spider in my bedroom.
I'm going with cycles, as soon as I get a run of good luck something figures the balance is off and sends me a ton of crap.
Don't know about luck, but you've just created the 10000th topic of this forum!
How do you know?
because I'm GOD, then I have to know everything about everything (well except luck I guess...):
"You last visited on 07/06/2006 04:27:50 4055 of 8470 Members have made 269913 posts in 14 forums, with the last post on 07/06/2006 07:09:59 by: Wulstan. There are currently 10000 topics and there are active topics since you last visited. Please welcome our newest member: regret."
I tend to have good luck in the grand scheme, but bad luck with minor things - like for instance, it rains at 60% of the baseball games i attend, i usually miss the bus/train by mere seconds, etc.
And Tre, the latest bit of bad luck i can see if that you've caught [edited] syndrome with all that punctuation in the title
There was this time I bought a fruit and nut bar. I took it home and I was really looking forward to eating it, but when I got home and opened it up...there was no fruit and nut in it.
There was this time I bought a fruit and nut bar. I took it home and I was really looking forward to eating it, but when I got home and opened it up...there was no fruit and nut in it.
you lucky so and so, you got extra chocolate. ;)
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us -Ralph Waldo Emerson
oh yeah! makes me think that I just won a ticket to a fantastic three day festival the other day with: Mogwai, Calexico, Liars, Islands, Islands, Why?, Howling Bells, Cat Power, Belle & Sebastian, TV On The Radio, The Pipettes, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Radio 4, Franz Ferdinand, Katerine, Chloé, The Television Personalities, The Spinto Band, Band Of Horses, etc.
My heartstrings have been tugged here. Chin up, good things usually come out of the blue when you're going through a prolonged bad patch. Maybe having the 10000th is a sign! :)
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I tend to have more good luck than bad. Ran out of petrol a few times just yards away from a petrol station, spluttered onto the forecourt and filled her up. I used to be super polite on the road, giving way for people, flashing a wave and a smile if someone's given way for me, and all was swell. But all that changed a year or two ago. I'm a bit of selfish git now like the rest and boy do I run into some trouble on the road. Coincidence? I think not.
At the moment, it's the people around me who have mishaps which usually involves me helping out or mopping up the mess. And things come in threes (or more) is so true with my family it's uncanny. Karma kicks me up the ass on a regular basis.
Ran out of petrol a few times just yards away from a petrol station, spluttered onto the forecourt and filled her up.
Haha, that happened to me too, and if I remember rightly, it was on the way back from the interview I mentioned above. The engine cut just as I turned into the petrol station and I freewheeled up to the pump.
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us -Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is true bad luck. People do sometimes get hit by meteors, but when your car breaks down, more often than not it's a function of inadequate maintenance. It may be luck to run into that special person, but it isn't luck to have lived so as to be able to recognize the special. Luck is in how the cards are dealt, not how they're played.
My socks and shoes always match Is it luck? There's a foot at the end of each of my legs Is it luck? I can play my bass for you Is it luck? Some girls like to kiss my face Is it luck? Is it luck? There's food inside your mouth today Is it luck? The barber cuts your hair just sooooooo Is it luck? When the taste of sex is on your lips Is it luck? Is it luck? well Ler These songs always sound so fast Is it luck? Polyester makes you sweat Is it luck? If a graham cracker gets you off Is it luck? Love, love, Is it luck? well Herb She said she wanted my body and not my mind so I showed her my dictionary to show the words that I know and from not what I examined I can be how loquacious when I set my mind down to it and she wasn't impressed, no doh doh da dody dody dody doh doh doh da dody dody dody dody dody doh doh doh she wasn't impressed at all. She whispered in my ear! She said, You wanna get lucky little boy? Oh I smiled I smiled and I said, Is it luck?
You must be my Lucky Star 'Cause you shine on me wherever you are I just think of you and I start to glow And I need your light And baby you know
Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight Starlight, [starbright] make everything all right Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight Starlight, [starbright] yeah
You must be my Lucky Star 'Cause you make the darkness seem so far And when I'm lost you'll be my guide I just turn around and you're by my side
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight 'Cause I know you're gonna make everything all right
You may be my lucky star But I'm the luckiest by far
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight 'Cause u know your gonna make everything all right
Your may be my lucky star But im the luckiest by far
Starlight starbright
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur
Tre, I am so sorry to hear that someone so sweet and smart and witty is having such bad luck. You totally don't deserve any bad things and it does seem like you're having bad luck.
For some reason, I just think that some people are unlucky and some people are really lucky. Some people have to scrap around for everything and other people it's just easy no matter what.
I think luck is part karma and part just the lessons you wanted to live in this life. Sometimes I think people before entering in this life choose to have a hard go of it because that path was chosen to build character and what not. I know it's kinda hokey but I do think it's true.
Anyway, a lot of people here really like you and hopefully some of our positive thoughts can help even a little in getting your luck to change, because I know you deserve it.
You must be my Lucky Star 'Cause you shine on me wherever you are I just think of you and I start to glow And I need your light And baby you know
Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight Starlight, [starbright] make everything all right Starlight, starbright first star I see tonight Starlight, [starbright] yeah
You must be my Lucky Star 'Cause you make the darkness seem so far And when I'm lost you'll be my guide I just turn around and you're by my side
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight 'Cause I know you're gonna make everything all right
You may be my lucky star But I'm the luckiest by far
Come on shine your heavenly body tonight 'Cause u know your gonna make everything all right
Your may be my lucky star But im the luckiest by far
Starlight starbright
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur
Luck
Posted - 07/06/2006 : 06:41:34
then I have to know everything about everything (well except luck I guess...):
