QMusings

In honor of Friday the 13th I thought I’d discuss luck.

Do you believe in luck? That luck is something that happens – that you can’t control it?

But what can you really control in life? Not much.

What you do have control of is your attitude, your thoughts.

For example, I feel that I am pretty lucky.

I am grateful for the life I have.

You may be thinking, “Uh, Ms. Q … haven’t you mentioned a few times that you weren’t exactly raised in an environment of umm…sweetness and light?

There is that. But here’s where I’m lucky – I have not let the past drag me down. I’m not saying that my psyche is a cloudless sky of endless blue where the sun casts its golden glow over a field of flowers that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Shadows lurk.

I’ve been very lucky to meet people who have either actively guided me in a positive direction or whose presence helped me grow.

I’ve had bad things happen to me. None of them have been tragic or horrible. When it comes right down to it, I have experienced nothing that I have not or will not recover from.

I’ve been fired. Twice. The first time was a very good thing. The job sucked and I’m not a quitter so getting fired was a great thing. It felt like failure, though.

The second firing was a great learning experience. I learned where I was weak and also, what to look for in a manager.

In the long run, getting fired from that job was fantastic.

A friend got me a job interview at his company and I interviewed just for the practice. I had no interest in being a consultant. I ended up getting a job offer, probably because I wasn’t all that worried during the interview.

The job involved a lot of travel and I’d lived in one place my entire life so I thought, why not give it a shot?

Being fired was a great thing: I ended up finding a job I enjoyed but had never considered before. I also managed to survive the massive layoffs during the tech bust. My former company no longer exists.

I’ve been dumped. Numerous times. My heart has been broken and I’ve done my share of breaking them.

Love and loss are a part of life and I’m lucky to have loved and been loved.

I’m alone right now. Some may consider my single state bad luck.

When I wonder if I will ever find my life’s companion, I remind myself that life, the universe, the source, however you want to call it, has always come through for me.

All the bad things that have happened to me – getting fired, getting dumped, even getting depressed, have taken me to places that I needed to go to in order to be ready for the place I finally ended up at.

I could have looked at my difficulties as setbacks, as bad luck.

My “bad luck” forced me to grow and change.

I choose to look at setbacks as life’s way of setting me back on the right track.

I’m lucky.

You can be, too.

Change your attitude and you might just change your luck.

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