Lent. Never been a fan of giving up meat for lent. I am not about to start now. Well, honestly, never been a fan of giving up anything, so there you go. Bite me. (Oh, I leave it to you readers which meat I may be referring to here...you and your dirty...whatever).
This time, however, I wish I could give up one thing. And not just for lent. Forever. I will give up my bad luck! Yes, Sunshine, your friend has had a string of bad luck lately, and it ain't leaving me, not yet anyway.
Let me count the ways...
* had to personally serve pink slips to at least 60 people
* then lost my job and the perks that come with it
* one hundred sixty fucking thousand ripped off my credit card thru fraud
* plus a few thousands stolen from my atm
* Halle had a flat tire
* then two weeks later some Portuguese transplant hit the rear of my car over EDSA
Ironically, as a Rabbit I am supposed to be one of the luckiest guys on the planet this year of the Fire Pig. And yet I seem to be the having the worst luck this time of year. Will things ever turn around?
Of course, there are good things beneath the bad. RL, for one. And very good and loyal friends around. People I share the pain and laughter with. My family. My friends. I said I lost my job but I immediately transitioned into another, though I still have reservations regarding this one. Ok to be honest I really hate working in Ortigas. There.
They say we have to look at the bright side, find meaning and purpose. Things happen for a reason, they say. It's been a while since I last forced myself to think things over, and try to sift through the mess and search the treasure the universe intended me to find.
Maybe, I am indeed lucky - that despite the bad luck around me I managed to escape unscathed. Maybe it is my luck that kept me alive all these times, so that I may look deeper inside and find the one thing I have been searching for. If these things didn't happen, I would have never realized that more than anything else, I wanted to live a life of purpose, simple and true.
I discovered the path. I now have to walk though it.
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4 comments:
what happened to your job???!!!!!! and my golly gulay what happened to you credit card??? where in ortigas ka na ngayon? what do you do? WE DO HAVE A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO.....
on the bright side...am i reading this right...kayo pa rin? IS HE THE ONE?
Don't mean to sound preachy but luck is how we want to see it, Pr'e. I'm sure you've got a longer list of great things that have happened to you already.
P.S. Pardon the optimism. Been trying to be less pessimistic. You know what I mean.
Sunshine:
My job? It stopped being one :-D
My plastic? Now a useless piece of plastic with my name on it. Someone made Cash Advances on several ATMs but I swear it wasn't me...
Where am I working? Sa Orient Square...hooked up with an old boss as his consultant hehehe. Don't worry, am still with the firms I co-own, just that I stopped getting my pay check to help out a bit...dunno how long this will go on but am getting restless....
"pre, ok lang...I know what you meant...it's easier to blame it all to luck though...
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