Lucky is a State of Mind

In elementary school, we had a Fun Night once a school year where families came to play games, enter in raffles, and meet teachers. The biggest event of the night was always the drawings for the raffles, with the "biggest prize" called last. My fifth grade year, my mom let Eryn and I buy a couple of tickets and place them in a couple of raffles. I remember standing around with nearly all 400 in my elementary school and their parents listening to the winners as they were drawn. When the final raffle ticket for the largest prize was pulled out, I instantly got a weird feeling that I had won. Indeed, my name was called.

Since fifth grade, I have been a lucky person. I have won many things through drawings like that one. I have also called in and won movie tickets twice from the radio and won $50 of scratchers during a baseball game. Now, you may be thinking she doesn't sound that lucky. She's only won a couple of things.

Your thinking is correct; I have only won a couple of things in my lifetime, but my whole family has considered me lucky. Since I won that basket full of goodies in fifth grade, I have believed I was a lucky person, causing others to believe it as well.

Luck is a state of mind. If you have a positive outlook on life, you probably tend to think you are more lucky rather than unlucky. This goes the same with situations throughout a day.

For instance, the relationship I have with the printer at work is a love-hate relationship. When I begin to print documents larger than ten sheets, I usually create a paper jam. Daniela, the IT person, assumes it is me when a paper jam occurs. She said more times than not, I created the paper jam. In the past, I have always been lucky with technology, but not this printer.

Sure, it's an easy fix. I just remove the paper and continue printing. However, today was a little different. I removed the jammed paper, it began to print one page, then another paper would jam. This went on for three or four pages before Daniela came to help me.

She finally fixed the printer but said she had never seen a printer jam like that before. She turned and smiled at me, indicating I am "special" when it comes to jamming that printer. In most cases, I would say I am unlucky and this printer just hates my guts. However, I am determined to prove to that printer that it WILL NOT jam when I next use it. I am determined to change my fate.

As for now, the printer is winning. Printer: (at least 10) Kaila: 0