06.13.08

Friday the 13th. . .

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Does Friday the 13th give you the willies? I have to admit that sometimes Friday the 13th gives me the willies. I don’t consider myself a very superstitious person, but upon reflection today, I see that I do seem to have a superstition button. It’s kind of like when a black cat crosses my path, I know at times I have stopped and for a split second, I’ll think, “Ack, that was a black cat!” Then quickly, I’ll come to my senses and turn around and think, “So what?” And so it is with Friday the 13th. Today started out in the usual way. I thought nothing of the day until I got to checking my email and one of my friends wrote that she wanted to go gambling today because it was. . . Friday the 13th. . . Ack! It’s Friday the 13th! I thought, then the next second I thought, “So what?” Ah, but it did make me stop for a moment, didn’t it? . .

That some things will give me pause, while others will not, has made me wonder. For instance I have no problem throwing away chain letters. It makes sense that anyone with a superstition button (as I seem to have) would not throw away chain letters or stop chain emails, but I have no problems throwing them away or deleting them. And now I wonder why? So while I’m in the reflection mood this morning, I think perhaps it has something to do with other ways in which we guide our lives. For instance, chain letters tend to have stipulations such as if you do such and such, then good luck will befall you. If you don’t do such and such, then bad luck will befall you. Many times the good luck example will be that someone wins the lottery shortly after compliance, but another who does *not* comply will have lost his entire life’s savings along with the wife and cat. To me chain letters have the feel of gambling, and the things a person needs to do to obtain the lucky streak is the hallmark of chain letters. Since I’m not a gambler, never been one, and never had much interest in it, I think that may be why chain letters never had much weight to me. The parallel with chain letters and gambling as far as I see is that they are all about how to get lucky. I’ve always associated the saying, “Luck is the poor man’s obsession” to a gambler. Maybe I’m wrong, but that has always been my underlying feeling about it. Gambling? Not interested. Chain letters? Not interested. LOL Just for clarity, I have nothing against the poor, just that gambling, laziness, and poverty sometimes go hand in hand with luck. I’m thinking along the lines of luck vs hard work. I know it’s more complicated than that since often business deals have a element of luck in there, too, but I’m hoping you know what I mean.
While I am on the subject of chain letters, I do have a chain letter experience that I still remember today. Years ago when I was working, my friend and I both got a chain letter. We read it, looked at each other and then threw them away in the trash can. We left work that Friday and came back the following Monday. The first news my friend got was that she has passed a large check that had a stop payment placed on it, ack! The news that I got was that I was pregnant, ack! Being that my previous pregnancy and delivery was difficult for me, I was afraid to have another baby. This was a complete surprise, and I was quite nervous. After we told each other our “news,” we both turned our head in search of those chain letters we threw away in the trash! Alas the trash had been emptied last Friday, so no chance to retrieve those letters. Well as with many stories, things turned out good in the end. Money problems always have a way of being fixed, and I can confidently say today that I’m extremely happy that I was pregnant those many years ago. Today my son is one of the sweetest boys I know, and at 14 years old he’s still sweet enough to hug me every day. He is a complete joy to me, and I can’t imagine him not being around. I think of all that I would have missed had I not gotten pregnant those many years ago. So it was all good, and those chain letters my friend and I threw away long ago meant nothing.

Okay, stop the press. . . Brian was just passing by while I was typing the above and wanted to know what I was writing. So, I read it to him. His first comment to me after I read my last sentence, “. . . and those chain letters my friend and I threw away long ago meant nothing,” he said, “Well, obviously those chain letters meant enough for you to write about them these many years later.” LOL And so he’s right. While I don’t remember the content of those letters, I still remember they were chain letters to this day and that we had thrown them away and later associated them with our “news.” The other comment he made was that my post was silly. . . Oh, I said, should I just scrap it then and not post it? His reply to me was, “No go ahead and post it. So what if it’s silly. You’re silly.” LOL Blush. . .

So, I’ve experienced two revelations this Friday the 13th. Are they good or bad? Well, lemme see. . . The first revelation is that I’m a tad superstitious. Shame on me! The second revelation is that my husband thinks I’m silly, lol. Blush. . . Oh no! Maybe there is something bad about Friday the 13th after all? LOL

Okay, I “did” have more to yak about, but I think that’s enough silliness for now. . .

Happy Friday the 13th!

Marlakins

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