The Luck of Bad Timings
It's like you're at the European roulette table. '0' hasn't come up for like 50 spins. So it's time to place bets on '0'. And it doesn't come up for another 40 spins. What do you do? You double up and keep putting on '0' of course. And you eventually make your money back and come out ahead just a little bit. 2 spins later '0' hits again but you didn't have anything on it because you were looking to see how the luck was going to pan out for 3 spins. At that point you should walk away.
Sometimes you run into people at the wrong point of your life. That's just the way it goes sometimes. They might have been the love of your life but you're already with somebody going down a different path. What are you going to do?Throw away something perfectly good just to see if the new thing is more exciting? Or you might meet somebody as they're leaving a company as you walk in, or you're leaving university as they come in. These things happen. If you believe in fate, you'd better believe that fate has a cruel sense of humour. Personally, I find it better not to believe in fate at all.
Whatever the situation, you will always hear that nagging voice in your head asking "what if...?" Considering the kinds of punts one is willing to take at the gambling table, it doesn't seem far-fetched that one might want to bet one's life on the next piece of ass that comes along. Frankly, that kind of lightness of character - that's kind of how you fuck up your own life. If you want to be lucky you've got to know when you're already being lucky.
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