Per Linda:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “luck.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
Luck is what you make, right? The fires in the west and the floods in the east and the occasional tornado, not the kind of thing one can make for oneself, right? Those who live and those who die from these incidents are a flip of the coin or brought it on themselves?
Okay, the thought of what we all might have contributed to the laws and the global warming that might have contributed to the catastrophes, does occur. Yet the individual who lives an dies don’t seem to pull that all to themselves. Sure a person can make sure their home is protected as best they can to withstand the throws of nature. But who is to blame for the victim’s bad luck?
There are those who wear special hats or ribbons when they gamble or race. Is it their luck if they win? Is it bad luck if they didn’t wear the lucky pin and they lost?
Yes, I’m addressing this. If we catch COVID19 or Delta and we’ve done everything to prevent it, is it our bad luck? This has to do with neighbors and friends and family, too. Just as a person can pass by your house and recklessly toss a cigarette out the car window and catch your house on fire. Even though you have fireproofed your place it burns down. Luck? Blame? Maybe the worst is the anger that blame brings. The house is still on fire. The possible disease is attacking. Maybe it’s a waste of time and energy to call out the careless? They are probably rich and can get out of it anyway. Sure we hope there will be a way to recover physically and financially. And we have done everything in our power to stay safe and healthy. We’ve saved our pennies when we could. So it’s just bad luck?
I’m falling down a rabbit hole here. I’m not sure there is a wise person, guru, rabbit’s foot that can save this blog today.
Meanwhile, our day was hot, 96 with smoke and clouds making it sticky and awful. We’ve kept the fans going and kept hydrated. Tomorrow will be 100. If we are lucky we will get through as the next week shows 80s. Our pets lay around the floor and we check on them. We take siestas during the heat of the day and that helps a little. But I get grouchy after a hot nap.
All the while I am hearing this earworm.
Maybe I can get it out of my head.
Lol that’s some ear worm! I am not sure whether luck has much to do with what happens to us all. I do think we all find comfort in blaming luck for misfortune and praising it for good fortune…. We are the masters of are fate…..aren’t we?
Have a good day and stay cool and safe.💜
Resilience helps with it all.
It certainly does
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And thanks! We made it through the heat today!
Excellent 👌
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I feel like I used to have more control over my life… but maybe I just had better coping skills when things did go wrong. I dunno.
Btw, in case you didn’t actually know, it’s throes, not throws. 🙂
I meant to correct that. I knew it was wrong, but the stream took over, and block system of WordPress doesn’t allow Grammarly to do the final check. Grr! Thanks for pointing it out. You know that feeling, ‘there’s something I needed to do?’ It jangled my nerves as I pressed publish. 💜
And maybe we’re all trying to find our balance after a crazy couple years.