A self fulfilling prophecy?
It's strange how things work out. This weekend I tryed to get something together for saterday. Nothing big, just a little BBQ with friends. At first I thought it was a great idea, we would all get together for one last bash this summer. So I called around, and thats when things started to go wrong. People were busy, they had other plans, they wanted to go to a different spot, they weren't sure if they wanted to come, why have a BBQ etc, etc, etc.... Right from the begining it was doomed.
Yet somehow it started to come together. Some said they would come, others said they would show up for a little bit, others said they wern't sure. At any rate we had it going, even though the whole thing was held together with spit and string. But in the back of my head, had this feeling that something was going to go wrong, somehow this endevor would fail.
And lo and behold, the remanants of Huricane Ernesto decides to show up on Saterday, raining us out. And of course, everyone bailed! If it came with 80 km/h winds, driving rain, hail, lightning, you know a real storm, that I could be OK with. You have to cancel because peoples saftey is at stake, but no, Ernesto just drizzeled. Since the BBQ was to be held outside at the park, I understand that it had to be canceled, but that doesn't mean it still doesn't suck. The worse part is that I predicted something would happen to mess up my plans. In fact I think the words I used was that "something would rain on this parade."
The thing that gets me is that although I really wanted this BBQ to happen, right from the start the signs were inauspicious. Yes there was a lot of things out of my controle, but the point was I thought things were not going to work out and they didn't. Perhaps negitive thinking helps bring about the bad that happens. Do we make the bad happen by thinking that it will? Or are we just more atune to what could happen? Maybe I just keep on deluding myself. Things rarely work out the way we plan, it is just disapointing to predict just how they will fail.
Yet somehow it started to come together. Some said they would come, others said they would show up for a little bit, others said they wern't sure. At any rate we had it going, even though the whole thing was held together with spit and string. But in the back of my head, had this feeling that something was going to go wrong, somehow this endevor would fail.
And lo and behold, the remanants of Huricane Ernesto decides to show up on Saterday, raining us out. And of course, everyone bailed! If it came with 80 km/h winds, driving rain, hail, lightning, you know a real storm, that I could be OK with. You have to cancel because peoples saftey is at stake, but no, Ernesto just drizzeled. Since the BBQ was to be held outside at the park, I understand that it had to be canceled, but that doesn't mean it still doesn't suck. The worse part is that I predicted something would happen to mess up my plans. In fact I think the words I used was that "something would rain on this parade."
The thing that gets me is that although I really wanted this BBQ to happen, right from the start the signs were inauspicious. Yes there was a lot of things out of my controle, but the point was I thought things were not going to work out and they didn't. Perhaps negitive thinking helps bring about the bad that happens. Do we make the bad happen by thinking that it will? Or are we just more atune to what could happen? Maybe I just keep on deluding myself. Things rarely work out the way we plan, it is just disapointing to predict just how they will fail.
posted by The Cube at 5:27 AM
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