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Fate is intrinsically sadistic, hence one can find irony in almost everything in the world. It thrives on dishing out disappointment. I mean, have you ever met a lottery winner who really needed the money? Or if you bet your last chip on the table, what are the chances of you actually winning that round? Lady luck smiles on those who don’t need or care about her. She hates desperation in people.

It’s sort of like saying, “Love comes when you least expect it.” If you aggressively look for it, it will avoid you like the plague. Based on my own personal experiences, I have a strong inclination to think that both fate and luck only respond to reverse psychology. People who don’t expect much from life tend to get more out of it. So using that theory, in order for me to get what I really want I have to condition myself into thinking that I’m never going to get it.

Now some people would view this way of thinking as pessimistic, a sort of defeatist attitude towards life. And they’re probably right although I wouldn’t go as far as to say that I’m a pessimist. I prefer to think of myself as a wary optimist, battered by life’s disappointments, just playing along to fate’s cruel game.