My Lucky Day! and my thoughts on the existence of Luckiness.

in #popcontest7 years ago

The other day I had a lucky day and it made my think again about the existence of luck. It's something I've pondered a lot. I do feel that luck exists certainly you can have a stoke of luck, but my wonderings are around a person being inherently lucky or possessing luckiness.


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I'll start with my lucky day that put things into perspective a bit.

It had some bad moments.

Actually some pretty annoying moments.

First, I forgot about my shift at work until they called from the hospital to ask where the heck I was. I had to cancel plans for the night and rush into work, getting late start to my shift and feeling off the entire night. Not the mention being exhausted since I didn't sleep during the day or prepare in any way for my night shift. I didn't even have time to make a coffee! Yikes, not sounding lucky at all.

Next, When my shift was finally over and I got back to my car in the morning, from the haste in which I tried to get to work I found out that my keys were locked in the car. It was a chilly morning and it took a while for the tow truck to come and open the door and rescue me. I was stuck waiting in the cold for quite a while. Once again not sounding lucky.

Finally, I decided I needed coffee and breakfast to be able to make my drive home safe and sound. I stopped by McDonald's for a sausage mcmuffin and coffee. Not sure if you've been following my blog or I've mentioned before but I'm pretty damn cheap. I buy the sausage mcmuffin since it's like $2 less then the egg mcmuffin with the sausage patty. I find it hard to justify the $2 egg. But this morning the made an error and despite paying for the sausage mcmuffin I was treated to the $2 egg. Finally my luck had changed, I had some good blessings.

When I reported about my day to my wife. I told her of my good fortune in getting this egg upgrade and how lucky I was. Of course I mentioned the annoyance of locking the keys in the car and the additional fees for the tow truck to unlock the door (certainly more then the $2 egg just for the record). She was more apt to focus on this event and let me know I was more of a bad day then an lucky one.


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This is where my theory of luckiness come in.

I've always considered my self a lucky person, I seam to have more than my fair share of good fortune and other would agree. But I also wonder if my luck is in fact just from having a positive mindset and focusing more on the good moments that occur then the negative. Of course I then more frequently report to other about these positive events and these are the ones that I more readily recall as well.

I'm not sure this negates myself having luck and perhaps I still do have more luck than others but I also theorize that this perception of good luck is just from being positive and focusing more on good events.

I think positivity can have great effects on your life and maybe even the positivity and some sort of good karma actually brings about luck, but I'm less prone to believe this.

Anyways what does everyone think about this? Could I be onto something or totally wrong


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Man I have days like that. Nothing goes right. Murphy’s law. I’m a firm believer in that. Everything that can go wrong will (and then some). some ppl call me a pessimist but I believe im a realist and some days the universe just has it out for me.

But then I have those rare days when everything is amazing and it all balances out. It is weird that bad things happen in clusters though. It does seem like there is something to it (streaks of good or bad luck). Idk if it’s karma, some all powerful god who likes to mess with folks, or just plain coincide.

But enough about that from me. Time to get on with my Monday (groan). I wish you a better day my friend. Take care and keep doing what you do! You’re a very appreciated part of this community.

Thanks for stopping by my friend. Things do certainly seen to come in bunches at times. I just try to stay positive all the time.

Wow an egg on your sausage mcmuffin ! Score !! ( Love those things by the way !!) I definitely think having a positive attitude can bring good luck ! You always see the happy go lucky guy with the positive attitude winning at the casino , at least it seems that way LOL! And the guy that's depressed and down , lose everything . I sure like to try and stay positive as hard as it may be at times ! Which also makes me a happier person , so its a win win ! Thanks for entering your post in my #popcontest ! GOOD LUCK ! HA HAHA ! Upped and resteemed !! 🍀👍✌🍀

Yeah, what a minor win eh? But it's so much better to focus on anything positive for that matter and just ignore the negative!

Agreed my friend !👍👍👍

You have a wife, a car, and a job.
That's the trifecta :)

Yeah, your right about that, makes for a great life.

Being lucky in my opinion. Is when we do the right thing, the right way in the right manner, then luck comes in and take effect

Yeah, I think there are certainly ways to try to increase or influence ones luck.

Are you feeling lucky? Well... Are ya?
I think there's maybe at least a little something to streaks of luck. Overall I really just think it's more the ebbs and flows of life. Staying positive and focusing on the good certainly seems to make everything seem a little better at least!

Yeah I feel that same way as you really, good and bad things will come it's just a matter of staying positive.

It is a state of mind. Despite the bad moments, if you think more about the good ones than you will consider yourself lucky. I think myself lucky person, because I cherish every moment that makes me happy.

There you go exactly what I think about it really.

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Im lucky but ive also had a ton of bad crap happen over the years, but i still feel lucky, so i think your right its about mindset :)

Yeah, definitely, it's easy to have something bad happen, stay negative and it will only continue to get worse.

Good or bad luck is just a state of mind(in my opinion). A person who's glass is half full will always see the positives and interpret this situation for good. A person who thinks their glass is half empty will almost always see the negative and thinks its bad luck. I'm a glass always full type of guy and things have a way of always working out. Long may our luck continue

Thanks man, I really do think being positive is totally the answer.

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