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Why Some People Never Seem to Catch a Break
And why others are always the luckiest SOBs on the planet.
I remember seeing this cartoon when I was a kid. This poor guy is standing outside when it starts raining. He opens up his umbrella and starts walking. No matter which direction he goes or how fast he walks, that little cloud of rain is always over him. Just him. Everyone else is dry and he’s soaked.
If I had a dollar for every time I felt like that guy, I would buy a massive amount of stock in an umbrella company and retire rich. Knowing my luck, though, there would be an explosion in the umbrella making factory and I would lose everything.
Meanwhile, we all have that friend. Everything goes right for them. They apply for their dream job and get it. They put in a low offer on their dream house and get it. One relationship comes to an end and they effortlessly regroup themselves and saunter into some lunch establishment only to bump right into the love of their life.
We hate that friend.
Whenever we long for something good to occur, we look around us and see good things raining down on everyone else. We become hypersensitive to it and notice it more than ever.
When this happens, we have a choice and that choice determines what happens next. We can…
