So you know how sometimes, exciting things are happening, or starting to happen, in your life and you don�t want to talk about them too much for fear of jinxing them? Well, the thought occurred to me that this is very sad. I mean, we should be able to talk all we want about the exciting things going on in our lives. And if we believe that talking about them will �jinx� them, then that idea must have come from somewhere. That means that, traditionally, if you are excited enough about something to talk about it, you have probably been let down more times than not or you wouldn't believe you could jinx things....
I don�t know about a world where we have to feel that way, where we have to keep things to ourselves so that they won�t get ruined or fall apart. We should be able to shout from the rooftops the good things that are happening in our lives. But I guess it�s just the rule/law of averages. On average, if you encounter 300 people in a week, you will actually interact with 100 of them, then out of that 100, you might like 20 of them. Then out of that 20, you might like 10 of them enough to pursue something and out of that 10, something might actually work out with 1 of them. And on the way to that 1, 9 of those had some moments when there was a connection of some kind that you might have been excited about and that somehow fell apart. So, is that 9 failures and 1 success? Or just the filtering process? And I think that is why we think we jinx things when we talk about them, because on average, not everything we attempt can work out.
Does any of this make sense?
And not that I�m necessarily talking about a relationship or anything (look for that locked entry soon).
