OK…so a friend of mine was supposed to be doing a Skydive this morning for the first time after already two failed attempts due to the wind and also because someone was stupid enough to jump and land on his feet and brake his ankles or something like that. I don't know what is wrong with people when they do something and don't actually follow the one and only thing they were supposed to do…keep your feet up and let the instructor land you. Anyway getting back to my point…
She was so adamant that it would be third time lucky…she actually said to me
"Come on…it has to happen, third time lucky has to happen"
Turns out that once again she wasn't able to do it, due to the wind being too high and the clouds too low.
Third Time Luck…How much can we take this into consideration. I didn't pass my driving test till the fourth time. Also I didn't get my job from the third interview I had. I didn't even get a third time lucky boyfriend…still haven't got one :-(. How much does third time luck run peoples lives. Or for that matter how much do any of these sayings, myth's and superstitions run our lives? Do you walk under a ladder or do you put yourself in danger and walk on the road…do you have lucky pulling pants…do you jump over cracks in the road to save your mother…when you see a black bird do you bow and ask it how it is?…do you go in the opposite direction when you see a black cat about to cross your path? Why do we let these things run our lives. Do you really get 7 years bad luck if you brake a mirror?
My friend has had two bad ending relationships in the past and she was hoping…I know this is going to sound mad and I tend to agree with you…if she was able to do this Skydive Third time Lucky then maybe she will find the perfect guy…Third Time Lucky. When she heard she couldn't do the jump because of the wind and the clouds…well she wasn't in the best of moods. I think she's just going to give up on men. She's said it in the past.
"Your better off without men…the fuck you around until they don't want you anymore then they fuck off" or words to that effect.
I admit, I do some of those things, I walk on the road instead of under a ladder but I think that has more to do with my fear of the ladder collapsing and the person on it landing on me or the ladder and crushing me to death. I don't believe in third time lucky…it's just a myth…law of averages. I think you create bad luck by thinking you have it. Friday the 13th is a classic example…anything goes wrong on Friday 13th, it's because it's Friday the 13th, not just because everything would have happened had it been Friday 13th or not.
Maybe God didn't want her to do they skydive because our friend couldn't make it…maybe said fried prayed that it wouldn't go ahead because he couldn't go and see it (I don't think that's the case, but it's just a possibility). We don't know why things happen the way they do. I'm not a religious person at all…my friends will be the first person to tell you that…but I do believe that everything happens for a reason whether it be a good or bad thing. I don't get the job because then I wouldn't have met such and such a person…I didn't choose Economics at the first year of college course because then I would have met someone too early.
Anyway she's going to book her next skydive for her Birthday in June…keeping everything crossed that she can do it.
Hope you have an amazing day.
Fee xxx
