TooMuchTooSoon

Bad luck is one of those things that you can never avoid. Everyone experiences bad luck, some worse than others, and it sucks hardcore. Tonight I experienced some bad luck, and it just got me thinking about bad luck in general.

In my life I’ve had some bad luck on several occasions. In 8th grade, I stayed with a good friend while my parents were away. We were playing video games one Friday night, and he asked me what the most pain I ever endured was. I had answered his question with a story from my childhood, thinking nothing of it. The very next day, I broke my ankle while playing basketball (it’s actually a long, funny, stupid story, but I’ll spare you). That same friend asked me a similar question in our Senior year of high school. He asked if I had ever been in a car accident, and I had not. The VERY next day he and I were driving back from the mall, and sure enough I got into an accident, my first one ever.

Maybe some people are more cursed than others (like my friend, clearly), but we all catch that bad-luck-bug at one point or another. To some, bad luck is a sign from god that you are doing something wrong. Others view it as things happening for a reason. I’m not here to preach beliefs (maybe I’ll save that for another day), but bad luck is just straight up bad luck. Plenty of people have good luck all the time (see: Lottery Winners), and they don’t complain about it when they do. Why should we complain when we have bad luck. As far as I’m concerned, bad luck only builds up your character. If you can succumb all of the bad luck you are given, you can take the good luck with grace.

My bad luck today involved a school project. I had to load some video onto a computer, and it would not work at all. The lab with the computes closed at 9, and it’s due tomorrow at 1:00. The lab opens at 9:00 tomorrow morning. I don’t have a lot of time, and it’s just bad luck that it wouldn’t load. There are a lot of reasons why it wont load, none of which I have concretely answered or explored yet, but I am working on it. In a class where your professor gives negative grades, you can’t afford to NOT have video. Anyway… that’s where the bad luck ideas stemmed from.

The way I look at it (this is a good phrase for a post like this), this bad luck will make me realize that not everything should be taken for granted. Like I said before, bad luck happens to us all, but it by no means kills us (unless the bad luck you experience involves death, in which case, I’m sorry).

And you know what they say about that which doesn’t kill us…

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