Posted: 8/6/2009 4:39:54 PM EDT
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is there such a thing?
can you be, over your entire life, distinctively one way or another? i was having this argument last night with my girlfriend and she kept telling me no and then i asked her to use her X chromosome rolodex and name me a time i had actual good luck in a situation/deal. she couldn't do it. nothing seems to ever come out my way. today, like yesterday, was a damned good example. the new couch i ordered was about 1.25" too wide to fit in my damned house. i had to tell the delivery guys to leave it on the fucking porch and i would take care of it. had to dismantle my entire fucking front door, moldings and all. (by measurement it should have fit fine) maybe we forget the good "luck" we have but i damned sure can't remember much trying my damndest to do so............................. |
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Quoted: nothing seems to ever come out my way. today, like yesterday, was a damned good example. the new couch i ordered was about 1.25" too wide to fit in my damned house. i had to tell the delivery guys to leave it on the fucking porch and i would take care of it. had to dismantle my entire fucking front door, moldings and all. (by measurement it should have fit fine) That's not bad luck. It's a shitty job of measuring. Luck is all in your head. |
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the harder i work the more luck i seem to have i'm not talking millionaire luck or any such thing, it could be as simple as working on something, going out to your truck and finding you have every imaginable tool for every imaginable job EXCEPT the one you're workin on. that's my kinda luck. |
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nothing seems to ever come out my way. today, like yesterday, was a damned good example. the new couch i ordered was about 1.25" too wide to fit in my damned house. i had to tell the delivery guys to leave it on the fucking porch and i would take care of it. had to dismantle my entire fucking front door, moldings and all. (by measurement it should have fit fine) That's not bad luck. It's a shitty job of measuring. Luck is all in your head. bullshit. i measured the old couch, it was the SAME. this one simply had cushions that didn't give as much. i measured hardwood frame to hardwood frame and it was the SAME. the old couch took 2.5 minutes to get out of the house while the new one took 2.5 hours to get in. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: nothing seems to ever come out my way. today, like yesterday, was a damned good example. the new couch i ordered was about 1.25" too wide to fit in my damned house. i had to tell the delivery guys to leave it on the fucking porch and i would take care of it. had to dismantle my entire fucking front door, moldings and all. (by measurement it should have fit fine) That's not bad luck. It's a shitty job of measuring. Luck is all in your head. bullshit. i measured the old couch, it was the SAME. this one simply had cushions that didn't give as much. i measured hardwood frame to hardwood frame and it was the SAME. the old couch took 2.5 minutes to get out of the house while the new one took 2.5 hours to get in. Bad luck is the direct result of feeling sorry for yourself. When you run over your dog, get audited by the IRS, fo home with a tranny, and get ass cancer on the same day come back an tell us about it. Then I will believe you have bad luck. |
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No such thing - statistics of chance.
I do believe in a sort of kharma where good things happen to good people. Find yourself at church surrounded there and in your life with good people and good things pretty much happen. Find yourself surrounded by drug abusers or drunks and bad things are bound to happen. Some call that luck: "I was minding my own business (drunk out of my mind, at 3 AM in the morning, alone, in the wrong neighborhood) when some guy robs me. Typical bad luck for me.". |
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nothing seems to ever come out my way. today, like yesterday, was a damned good example. the new couch i ordered was about 1.25" too wide to fit in my damned house. i had to tell the delivery guys to leave it on the fucking porch and i would take care of it. had to dismantle my entire fucking front door, moldings and all. (by measurement it should have fit fine) That's not bad luck. It's a shitty job of measuring. Luck is all in your head. bullshit. i measured the old couch, it was the SAME. this one simply had cushions that didn't give as much. i measured hardwood frame to hardwood frame and it was the SAME. the old couch took 2.5 minutes to get out of the house while the new one took 2.5 hours to get in. Bad luck is the direct result of feeling sorry for yourself. When you run over your dog, get audited by the IRS, fo home with a tranny, and get ass cancer on the same day come back an tell us about it. Then I will believe you have bad luck. so bad luck is a direct result of the action of feeling sorry for yourself? i.e. woe is me, how could anything else go wrong.............and somebody runs into your parked car and totals it. direct result? |
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Quoted: so bad luck is a direct result of the action of feeling sorry for yourself? i.e. woe is me, how could anything else go wrong.............and somebody runs into your parked car and totals it. direct result? Chalk that one up to shit happens. It turns into bad luck when you get hung up on it and think life isn't fair. |
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The ancient Greeks thought good fortune was a possessed quality and they elected their leaders with that considered. IIRC, Pericles' luck had a hand in his election. I have always had good luck. I call it divine favor, but the effect is the same.  You make your own luck, just as Pericles built all those walls around Athens to keep the damn Spartans out. (I think...been a while since Greek History Class) |
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I could spill coffee on my new suit, fall and break my ankle then wreck someone's new car the day after my insurance company went out of business and still consider myself a lucky SOB. All I have to do is take a walk through Walter Reed and see some of our mangled young men who were unfortunate enough to be in a vehicle hit by an IED.
Keep things in perspective. |
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I could spill coffee on my new suit, fall and break my ankle then wreck someone's new car the day after my insurance company went out of business and still consider myself a lucky SOB. All I have to do is take a walk through Walter Reed and see some of our mangled young men who were unfortunate enough to be in a vehicle hit by an IED. Keep things in perspective. you're absolutely correct. however, taking nothing away from those instances, i was talking about longterm..................the small and the big, just longterm. |