I’ve never put much credence into the concept of luck. To me that has always implied some sort of predetermined destiny where “everything happens for a reason,” which I’m not willing to concede. Instead I chose to believe that we make our own luck. Instead of things just happening to us because of some undetermined cosmic logic we can instead chose to take what falls into our lap (or on our face) and do something positive with it. The choice is most often ours to turn our lemon into lemonade.
That all being said, somehow I manage to “believe” in my lucky number 3. I put believe in quotes because I don’t really think of it as luck. Instead I am over-conscious of the patterns that come out of it. I have a friend that started looking for and photographing the three number combination of “444”. After a year or so she has tons of pictures. And now that she told me about it I see it all the time, too. Numbers and patterns are out there everywhere and it’s up to us to chose to see them or not.
So back to my lucky number 3. I find that my “luck” with it goes for good as well as bad. A few days ago was no exception. Number 1: It started with my beloved iPod just shutting down and refusing to come back on. Ok, no sweat – I’ll just take it into the Apple shop when I’m in Dallas and have them work their magic music groovin’ voodoo… I hope. Number 2: I broke my camera. It fell out of my shirt pocket and the display landed at the worst possible angle on a brick. The cam still works on a basic level but I can’t change any settings (which I do all the time) or review any pictures. I immediately ordered a new one, which I was told usually arrives in two days but this time will take about three weeks. Ouch.
At the iPod store I learned I was now the owner of an expensive paperweight. Some of you may not wholly understand my bond with my iPod. Hell, I can’t even really figure it out but I just lovelovelove my iPod and having all of my music on me at any given time. Music, as you might have guessed, is big with me.
When two of my things just break down I start to wonder what the third will be. Number three almost always comes after two. Does it do it because I think it will or would it happen anyway? Whatever the reason (or lack thereof) behind it a third did come.
Leaving the parking lot I was smacked by another truck. A woman slammed into the passenger side of my truck before I ever saw her. My back door was was completely smashed while her truck barely took a scrape. Her headlight was all that I could see wrong even though my truck looked so much worse. She came out of nowhere.
Did that happen because 3 is my lucky (good and bad) number or do some things just happen? I submit that we manifest our own luck. I was looking for the third negative thing to happen and I found it.
Instead of staying down on myself I soon found myself comforted by the third act finally rolling through. The cycle of 3 is reset. Now I’m on the lookout for 3 great things to happen. My upswing couldn’t have come at a better time, really. Today I’m in Durham, North Carolina (where I flew into yesterday) and am about to hitchhike to Virginia. I’ve been pouring over maps this morning trying to determine the best way to get there and there just isn’t a “best” way to get there by thumb. It’s a good thing my luck/pattern cycle started over because looks like I’m going to need all the luck I can get.
Posted February 25, 2006 10:01 AM @ (GMT - 6)
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crazy with the 444's huh? : )