You’re So Lucky!

Leila was a high achiever. She had learnt that in order to survive; in order to be loved by her family and in order to be accepted in the workplace, she had to produce desirable results.

Her long list of accomplishments often evoked an emotional “You’re So Lucky!” response from new acquaintances, which made Leila cringe as she raised her eyebrows in disagreement to say “Oh, yeah? Really?!” She was superstitious and desperately afraid that her apparent good fortune would be jinxed by the overt envy or covert jealousy of people that neither cared for her success nor her well-being.

In order to ward off the bad luck that she was expecting, sooner or later, she would justify her apparent good fortune with a long list of sacrifices she had made along the way. She would highlight all her failures and sigh over her dreams that would never be fulfilled.

Leila believed that she was far from being lucky; in fact, she was convinced that her inability to settle down with the man of her dreams, and her numerous failed romances meant that she was cursed and that her life was cursed.

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Ms Jesvir Mahil
www.jesvir.com
December 2009, London, UK