It's interesting how some people just seem to be "plagued by demons" no matter what they do. I have a friend or two that, despite their best efforts, seem to be surrounded by an aura of misfortune.
This is also true of many other random people who I have never met, but see walking the street, it just seems that probably they are quite nice people, but there is something (perhaps spiritual, I don't know) that interferes and makes things difficult for them.
I am sure that the same is not true for all of them and that in many cases their troubles are all self inflicted (i.e. they could have prevented some things had they have actually mad an effort), but there seem to be some people in the world who just cannot avoid having rubbish things happen regardless of how hard they try.
For example, I noticed a chav couple walking in front of me today and couldn't help but overhear them arguing about silly stuff, I won't go into details (mainly because I can't remember most of them) but the general theme seemed to be a series of events that had gone wrong culminating in an argument where the female of the two was threatening to leave the bloke.
Strangely it got me thinking and I'm not really sure why, perhaps it is because they didn't sound like a pair of morons, they just seem to be unlucky, I wonder how many other people on the planet suffer the same fate.
Makes me realise how lucky I really am, I bitch about being poor, in debt and not being able to afford a 50" plasma TV, but in reality my life is not that terrible, I have a job and live in a flat that I own etc. It could be worse, much worse. I don't believe that I have been born with luck on my side, but in contrast to many people, I haven't had to suffer much, but I think there are people in this world that just have bad luck following them around.
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In reality if you think of all the things that can go wrong, we are all lucky to be alive. Life itself is a coincidence.
Nevertheless in the context of some being less lucky than others, I will have to agree as my personal experience showed that the worst possible scenario materialized every time there was a turning point in my life and especially when I had no control over a situation (i.e. when I needed to be lucky).
I was offered a very good job abroad, my mother passed away a few days before I left. On my wedding day it was raining and we had an open reception (it was scheduled for late June-and it was the ONLY day that month that it was raining). I have miscarried my first baby. On top of that, every time I decided to invest on a risky asset I always lost 50or more % of my money!
So am I unlucky? I would say yes because luck was NOT there when I needed it most. On the other hand, consider people who have been living a great life and just happened to pass under a bridge at the very moment the bridge collapsed, or an earthquake happened, or went onboard a flight at the very last minute only to die in a plane crash. I mean chances of something happening are so many that if you start thinking about it you’ll go insane.
Overall, yes I do think some have more luck than others, but we are all lucky that we’re around.
I hear you…I’m unlucky…every good thing that happens to me is soon replaced but unlucky streak…and I don’t mean that I did something wrong…I was passive in those situations (like rain on your wedding day)...there are dosen of events that confirmed to me that I’m unlucky…even most of the people that knows me, says to me that I’m unlucky…amaizing
Yes I was not born unlucky to say the truth but….. . Interesting to wind up stories on each and every activity we do that too when we deliberately know that ppl are watching. But thts alsoa life rite y cant we take up things easily as sombody dies when we enter a house, like sombody goes to hospital once we ask about their well being. When smbody loses their victory just bcos we wich them goodluck .Just bcos we crossed them their day din go on well.. Jus bcos we moved to the new aapartment smthing worse happens to tht which had not happened at all for so long yrs.
i was attacked near death by my tenants friend because i was evicting them for non payment of rent 2 months later my mother dies 6 minths later i cannot recover from the consisttant extreme tragedies so i leave my 100k year job. to stay home with my twins that are now 4 months old my husband leaves me for another wowan. I loose my home me and my three children (we had a 5 year old daughter at the time) end up homelesss I loose all the equity paying off bill collectors. I drive to pick up my daughter from scholl on a rainy afternoon I do not drink or use drugs, i hit an 76 year old woman who runs a stop sighn she dies on impact. I am going 15 miles over the spped limit. Anyone of good health would not of died says the firefighters and paramedics. I go home 4 months letter I get a court summons. The 53 year old daught pushes the court to charge me based on “no dpercent negligence in “Criminal Law”. That means I am 10 percent negligent for speeding .The victim is 90 percent negligent for running a stop sign. both parties are guilty.
They give me 4 months in county jail (the lightest sentance they can) I have no siblings my husband is gone. My healthy children get thrown into a DSS System and my twins are seperated for the first time ever. They are devestated. I miss christmas thanksgiving and both the twins and my daughters birthday. i get my children back worse for wear. I struggle with I.E.P’s and trying to find a home from a temporary shelter. We are able to stay here another year and then what i have a record i can not get housing. I spent all the money I had from the house on lawyers while I was jailed to get my children reunited in one dss home. It is going to start over and be that much worse when we have to leave here. my daughter is an honor student and i tank God for that but ishes just barely holding these changes together to many dramatic unluck events in a four year period from middle class to way below poverty level. I see people with more than they need and others with just the clothes on their back it is not a life a wished on three great kids! Any advice? keb9999@comcast.net
I sometimes think that I am the unluckiest person alive. I’m certainly the unluckiest person I know. My life since my twenties reads like a tragic novel. I fell in love in my early twenties only for the love of my life to be tragically killed in an accident. Moving on I went to university later than usual determined to make some positive changes to my life. My whole time there was plagued with illness and incidents. In my final year I met my second love. He died three years later from cancer. Determined that I would move on from this tradegy I took a job in Spain with the intention of giving myself a bit of a break. The whole year was clouded by drama after drama. I returned (after being stranded in France the final drama) more exhausted than I had gone. I got a great job on my return but had a terrible accident two months in and was unable to work for 12 months. I then met my ex partner and for a while my life settled a little. This was not to last of course and having moved jobs, a job which turned out to be the wrong job, house and area I realised that I had made a bad decision. This was after a long and laborious chain of events outside my control. And so, forever the optomist I decided to make a fresh start. New job, new house etc. In that twelve months alone I lost my mother suddenly, my father was diagnosed with cancer and I had a near fatal car crash. All these things affected my new job for which I had so much hope. Resilient as ever I picked myself up and carried on. That was twelve months ago. In that time I have been diagnosed with skin cancer, nearly lost my dear little dog twice due to serious illness and suffered a range of misfortunes which come so thick and fast that I rarely have time to catch my breath before the next one is upon me.
although i am not at your ages i have suffered much in my life and believe there is more to come.when i was 2 my father died,as a small boy i thought in a different way and believed this was just what everyone went through/Later i realized that i was very different and was saddened to know that i am not inderstanded by anyone.I look a bit different and was never really bullied but made fun of and didnt get the same oppurtunities like dating girls as often and other activities.For a while i believed it was normal but getting into my teenage years i realized i just wasnt able to get girls like everyone else.my differnt thoughts continued leading to me being somewhat of an outcast.My mom who always cared but never really understood me made my challenges more difficult.I realized that finding myself was going to be a bigger challenge than for the average person because of my differences.In school i was a good student until highschool.even thoughj i still recieved many good grades most teachers thought that i was stupid and i ended up not doing as well as i believed i could do sadly which i belive will disable me from future success.I feel sometimes that when i smoke reefer i am in a state of more understanding than when i am sober which is why i will start heavy usage to help my depression and realization that i am just one of those people who dont fit into society
Nevertheless in the context of some being less lucky than others, I will have to agree as my personal experience showed that the worst possible scenario materialized every time there was a turning point in my life and especially when I had no control over a situation (i.e. when I needed to be lucky).
I was offered a very good job abroad, my mother passed away a few days before I left. On my wedding day it was raining and we had an open reception (it was scheduled for late June-and it was the ONLY day that month that it was raining). I have miscarried my first baby. On top of that, every time I decided to invest on a risky asset I always lost 50or more % of my money!
So am I unlucky? I would say yes because luck was NOT there when I needed it most. On the other hand, consider people who have been living a great life and just happened to pass under a bridge at the very moment the bridge collapsed, or an earthquake happened, or went onboard a flight at the very last minute only to die in a plane crash. I mean chances of something happening are so many that if you start thinking about it you’ll go insane.
Overall, yes I do think some have more luck than others, but we are all lucky that we’re around.