Jan 27 2009
My Horoscope
ACCORDING TO MY STAR SIGN, which is Aquarius, my good luck is about to begin! Great! It’s about time! I usually don’t even bother to read the thing, but for some reason I did this week. Maybe that was the start of my good luck. I may even go somewhere to gamble.
If you think I’m going overboard about this, you don’t know what kind of luck I usually have. If there was a contest with 1,000 entries and I had 999 of them in my name, I would lose. Once when I read my horoscope, it said I would meet a tall, dark, handsome man. What it failed to tell me was that I would meet him when I rear-ended his car. Another time, it said I would find some money. I did, when I dropped the jar of change that we had been saving for three years. I found money under the couch, under the refrigerator, and under the kitchen table. I found money for two weeks!
This reminds me of a story I heard. A man asked God, “Please, can you help me? I need to win the lottery.” The next day his best friend won the lottery. The man asked God again, “Please can you help me? I really need to win that lottery.” A week later, his cousin won the lottery. The man asked God again, “Please, please, just let me win, even a small one.” Then suddenly the thunder rolled, lightening flashed, and God spoke to the man, “I’m trying, George, but it would help a lot if you would BUY A LOTTERY TICKET!”
That’s the way most of us are, we want something, but we don’t want to put out any effort to get it. Maybe luck has less to do with it than hard work and dedication.
So, I’ll just sit here and wait for my good luck to show up! I don’t think it will be Publishers Clearing House because I have a mail box full of magazines, and they’ve never shown up yet with MY check. I don’t think it will be from my stock purchases; although I wish now I had bought stock in McDonalds instead of General Motors. Just goes to prove that even if we can’t buy a car, we’ll still find a way to go get a Big Mac.
