Anyone ever just have bouts of terrible luck where shit just keeps going wrong for a time?

As soon as 2018 started I got sick, my pc has been giving me repeated problems every single day trying to update to a windows version that breaks my drivers and I can't play my favorite game online anymore because the servers are being blocked by some mysterious process that I can't figure out no matter how hard I try, my chronic health condition has flared up so bad I probably would've gone to the hospital if I had insurance, my last great grandparent died before I was able to visit him again one last time, I ended up getting esophagitis (and boy is that shit fucking painful) so I'm unable to toke right now which I use to help manage my piss poor appetite and consistent nausea, I somehow cracked my phone screen but don't remember dropping it at all, my truck has been broken down for over a month now and I can't afford to fix it, and a whole slew of other shitty little things on top of all of that.

Sort of feels like life is out to get me right now even though that type of thinking isn't something I am really prone to. Not asking for sympathy or anything, I'm just wondering if anyone else has periods of seemingly awful luck like this, and what you do to stay sane.

HA. Yeah, I had really bad luck in highschool. To the point where all my friends, whenever they had some bad luck, would jokingly say something like "Damn, the Snakeluck is affecting me now."

It's not so bad nowadays, mostly because my perspective has changed, but I still get weirdly unlucky quite often. I'll have a few weeks of pretty decent luck, but then all of a sudden I'll get a string of bad things happening one after the other. I then spend another couple of weeks recovering from that, only for the cycle to continue. It'd be humourous if I didn't fuck ME over.

Well just the other day, I took a shit so massive, all I could do was hold on for dear life and hope I don't shit a hole through a parallel universe
Like it was huge
Massive
Sphincter splitting hell

My toilet deserves a purple heart

8000+ days of it

But you got lucky when you found us isnt that right buddy?

Quote from: Snake on January 29, 2018, 08:15:38 PM

It's not so bad nowadays, mostly because my perspective has changed, but I still get weirdly unlucky quite often. I'll have a few weeks of pretty decent luck, but then all of a sudden I'll get a string of bad things happening one after the other. I then spend another couple of weeks recovering from that, only for the cycle to continue. It'd be humourous if I didn't fuck ME over.

I try to maintain a more positive outlook, but god damn is it hard sometimes.

Yeah, it is. I've come to expect bad luck at all times, so when it hits me, I'm prepared, but when it misses me, I'm baseline. The key is to expect the universe to want you to not succeed, and then use that as fuel for your conviction to succeed in spite of those efforts. Easier said than done, though.

Quote from: Aether on January 29, 2018, 08:45:46 PM

Quote from: Snake on January 29, 2018, 08:15:38 PM

It's not so bad nowadays, mostly because my perspective has changed, but I still get weirdly unlucky quite often. I'll have a few weeks of pretty decent luck, but then all of a sudden I'll get a string of bad things happening one after the other. I then spend another couple of weeks recovering from that, only for the cycle to continue. It'd be humourous if I didn't fuck ME over.

I try to maintain a more positive outlook, but god damn is it hard sometimes.

Yeah, it is. I've come to expect bad luck at all times, so when it hits me, I'm prepared, but when it misses me, I'm baseline. The key is to expect the universe to want you to not succeed, and then use that as fuel for your conviction to succeed in spite of those efforts. Easier said than done, though.

I'm more inclined to view my problems as the consequences of my own actions, but I guess I expect the same a lot of the time considering how things have been going for me these past few years. Mainly to spare myself of disappointment. Turning that into motivation is another story, though. That kind of drive is respectable. My resolve has been broken down over the years from illness but I haven't given up yet.

Well, I left my last job before a year was up to take one at twice the pay. Now my new company is the defendant on a class action lawsuit that will likely have us closing our doors in 6 months time.