Have you ever had one of those days/weeks/months where it feels like if it wasn't for bad luck you'd have no luck at all? I generally like to see myself as a person who sees the cup as half full rather than half empty. I tell other people things like, "It'll be okay. Try to look on the bright side. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger..." You know all the sayings. I've also learned that the best thing you can do for yourself is to choose to be around positive people rather than surround yourself with negative energy. Negativity just seems to breed more negativity. But with all that said... what a trying month or so it has been!
I won't say that I'm overly superstitious but I'm wondering if my recent streak of "bad luck" didn't all start when a giant mirror I was so proud to have picked up at a local garage sale came crashing to the ground not long after I hung it... Unexpected bills seem to keep pouring in. Last week I went home for lunch to find the SaskPower guy at my house cutting off my power! A billing issue led them to believe my house was vacant. Ugh... Knowing I always pay my bills on time, I plead with him to let me straighten it all out but to no avail. Deep freeze melting, I waited on the phone for almost an hour before I got the whole mess on the road to being sorted out. There's also been a number of other things but yesterday's happening may have taken the cake. With plenty on my mind I thought my car was in park as I hopped out. To make a long story short, it wasn't. Desperate to avoid the $700 deductible as I saw my driverless car making it's way to a parked (brand new) car. I tried to jump back in to stop it. Not a good result. I wound up being dragged before having my door almost ripped off by the other car. "What next?" I sobbed as I sat awaiting the doctor in emergency. "You know," he said. "You are really lucky." "Lucky? I'm not feeling so lucky," I replied. "You could have been killed," he reminded me as he cleaned up my scrapes and gave me tetanus shot. "Someone must be watching over you..."
Hmmm... I thought about it all and maybe there's a lesson to be learned. My power was turned back on that day. And after hearing a witness account of my run in with my car, I really am lucky nothing worse came of it all. I have my health, my kids, a job to go to, a warm roof over my head, friends and family that love me... I have the freedom to make choices and to take new paths... The bills may not stop coming in but I can throw that mirror away and look towards better times. After all, if it wasn't for the rain, we would never have the opportunity to see the rainbows.
