Good day, good week? How does your luck run?

[Thespeckledkiwi]

This is an odd question but I am very curious about this; and it might be my bipolar taking affect as well, but do people simply have good days and bad days? Do they have good weeks, bad weeks? That alternate?

I rarely have...normal days. I do and I don't. Usually things just compound into one clusterfuck of a bad week with multiple days, and even weeks, running into one just shitty event. While on the flip side, I will have good days and good weeks where everything goes right.

It never seems to be in the norm where somethings goes right or something goes wrong but usually everything goes wrong one week and nothing goes right.

 

[RoJoHen]

I have good days and bad days, but they are usually random and without warning. For the most part my days are all very uneventful and predictable.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

See, I wish that is what happens to me is just uneventual and predictable...But apparently not.

 

[RoJoHen]

Eh, it gets boring. I wouldn't mind a little more drama in my life.

 

[Amaris]

^ Be careful what you wish for, my friend, it may just happen.

As for myself, I think I have more good days than bad, but the good days are usually just fair to middling, while the bad days are truly bad.

 

[RoJoHen]

^ Be careful what you wish for, my friend, it may just happen.

Bring it on!

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

^ Be careful what you wish for, my friend, it may just happen.

As for myself, I think I have more good days than bad, but the good days are usually just fair to middling, while the bad days are truly bad.

See I am wondering based off of my psychological disorder if I am perceiving bad days as bad simply because of my perception and to someone else they are simply middling days?

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, what happens in these bad days that you think makes them bad?

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

My friends get fired from their job, I totally fuck up something...

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I am absolutely sure that my depression colors my thinking about my luck because a)I don't believe in luck, but I am sure I have bad luck, and b)There are times I honestly do believe the universe is conspiring against me.

Because I tend to shelter myself so much I actually don't have much negativity or positivity in my daily life. But I think when it does happen it tends to even out. Unfortunately it evens out because usually something extremely good happens and then something extremely bad happens.

This week I was absolutely convinced that I would not get another unemployment extension. Well not only did I get it, but it was a lot more than I expected and it will take me to the end of my schooling in three months when I'll be able to get a full time job again. Great news. Not so great news: Social Services tells me they never got something I mailed them and they cancelled my assistance so now I have to spend two or three days wrangling with them. On top of that I was dropped from a class at school because I have been having omputer troubles since Valentines Day and I didn't check my shool e-mail and missed an assignment I was supposed to do. But like most things these examples of "luck" can be traced to my own lack of control in my life and my being proactive instead of lazy. In other words you make your own fortunes in this life and good fortunes build on themselves.

 

[Amaris]

^ Be careful what you wish for, my friend, it may just happen.

Bring it on!

[backs away slowly as thunderclouds gather]

See I am wondering based off of my psychological disorder if I am perceiving bad days as bad simply because of my perception and to someone else they are simply middling days?

The unfortunate thing about it is that it's all relative. What someone considers a good day may be fair to middling for others, then again, a fair to middling day may be bad to some. For me, a fair to middling day is essentially when nothing truly negative happens. A bad day is when something very negative happens. Sometimes my bad days have multiple negatives, for example, two unrelated but same day events where my friend was in a car accident, and that same day one of my family members died. A good day? Oh, I don't really have very many good days. A good day is when something truly positive occurs. It is a rarity.

I say this as someone who was once quite the optimist. I could see a nearly empty glass and tell you "at least there is something there to drink". Now, I would think to myself, "it figures, everyone else has finished the drink before I could".

I am absolutely sure that my depression colors my thinking about my luck because a)I don't believe in luck, but I am sure I have bad luck, and b)There are times I honestly do believe the universe is conspiring against me.

Because I tend to shelter myself so much I actually don't have much negativity or positivity in my daily life. But I think when it does happen it tends to even out. Unfortunately it evens out because usually something extremely good happens and then something extremely bad happens.

This week I was absolutely convinced that I would not get another unemployment extension. Well not only did I get it, but it was a lot more than I expected and it will take me to the end of my schooling in three months when I'll be able to get a full time job again. Great news. Not so great news: Social Services tells me they never got something I mailed them and they cancelled my assistance so now I have to spend two or three days wrangling with them. On top of that I was dropped from a class at school because I have been having omputer troubles since Valentines Day and I didn't check my shool e-mail and missed an assignment I was supposed to do. But like most things these examples of "luck" can be traced to my own lack of control in my life and my being proactive instead of lazy. In other words you make your own fortunes in this life and good fortunes build on themselves.

That would be the "Other Shoe" syndrome, and I have had it in the past. I would dread when truly good things would happen, because inexplicably there would be something terrible right around the corner. In truth, it's probably all in our heads, but it doesn't help because we still feel that way.