On Jinxing
Do you believe in Jinxing? Not the kind where you say the same thing at the same time someone else does and then you pinch and poke and owe someone a Coke. I believe in that kind of Jinxing too; that's just not the kind I'm talking about today. I'm talking about the kind where you make something happen, or not happen, because you so much don't/do want it.
Like you plan for something, prepare, get all your ducks in a row, count all your chickens, other cliches concerning fowl that are eluding me right now, and then BLAMMO, the thing you were preparing for ain't gonna happen. Or at least not in the way you expected. When something like that happens, do you feel like you were the cause of it? Like you showed the universe too much of your heart and it smacked you down?
If you get what I mean, and it's ever happened to you---what do you do afterward?
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Like you plan for something, prepare, get all your ducks in a row, count all your chickens, other cliches concerning fowl that are eluding me right now, and then BLAMMO, the thing you were preparing for ain't gonna happen. Or at least not in the way you expected. When something like that happens, do you feel like you were the cause of it? Like you showed the universe too much of your heart and it smacked you down?
If you get what I mean, and it's ever happened to you---what do you do afterward?
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Yes. I believe that what we think influences what happens. But I don't believe that wanting something too much is what hinders its fruition. Now this is gonna get all woo-woo, at least a bit, but I think sometimes, fences inside us create fences outside us. Not always, but sometimes. If there's ambivalence inside, stemming from issues that may have absolutely nothing do with the manifest situation, it still may crop up as, if not a dealbreaker, then an obstacle.
Does that make sense? Of course, it's just an opinion. And one that, even if possessed of a grain of truth, might not apply here at all -- knowing the gory details of your particular conundrum as I do.
Sending you a Dr. Pepper in lieu of a Coke, all nice and icy and fizzy with just a touch too much syrup. And all my love and support.
xx
Which one we select may be determined by fears or walls within ourselves, as Suze said. I try not to dwell on the negative, even though I'm a bit cynical. Don't want to pick up the wrong thread, you see. Maybe we have more mind control than we realize - I like that thought.
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A lot of times things won't work out the way we want them to, but they often work out the way we expect them to.
I just shake my head, mumble a few curses under my breath, and trudge on... What else can we do?
As far as the second kind, I think all you can do is go to Plan B (or make one up real quick) and just do your best to keep moving forward.
Best of luck!
Love,
Janie
If jinxing means you get all tense to try to prevent something or make something happen, maybe our own anxiety can get in the way?
I've also wanted something so bad then didn't get it and the end result was better than if I'd gotten what I thought I wanted!
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I like to think something better is on its way, but as a pessimist, it usually doesn't happen. HOWEVER, that being said, I am ususally quite releived that whatever I was gearing up for, I now don't have to do.