Every time something truly good happens, it's like there's always a price to pay for it. And it happens immediately.
About three weeks ago, my husband was offered a great job for 20k more a year with excellent benefits. Then three days into the job he gets shingles and we end up in the hospital twice in two weeks. Now he's recovering slowly and back to work but he's in pain and itches.
Then Wednesday I go to a popup market for an event and we get hit by torrential rain with a massive puddle developing at the back side of my spot. My cart tips over and about a third of my product is now either destroyed or needs complete repackaging along with a non-waterproof duffle bag full of things like the electric light I use for evening markets gets covered completely with water. Basically nearly everything I had is soaked (including me at the time)
And then it starts to leak inside the house near the main AC from the roof. We get a repair guy over who says he managed to temporarily fix it but the pipes in the house are muddy and clogged and we need to get someone over to clean the whole plumbing of the house and to do it fairly soon or we will have a bigger problem.
This happens every single time something fairly big but good happens. Like when we bought our house. We move in and suddenly, money and job problems almost instantly. New car? The stupid water heating in the CEILING breaks down leaking into the house and destroying the ceiling in two rooms, then almost right after we have to get a new AC unit because it decided to quit working. Both those things are in the past but sometimes it really feels like fate thinks it's incredibly funny to make us pay heavily for anything good that might happen. And it's not like these things wait to happen either, they usually all happen within a week of the good thing happening.
About three weeks ago, my husband was offered a great job for 20k more a year with excellent benefits. Then three days into the job he gets shingles and we end up in the hospital twice in two weeks. Now he's recovering slowly and back to work but he's in pain and itches.
Then Wednesday I go to a popup market for an event and we get hit by torrential rain with a massive puddle developing at the back side of my spot. My cart tips over and about a third of my product is now either destroyed or needs complete repackaging along with a non-waterproof duffle bag full of things like the electric light I use for evening markets gets covered completely with water. Basically nearly everything I had is soaked (including me at the time)
And then it starts to leak inside the house near the main AC from the roof. We get a repair guy over who says he managed to temporarily fix it but the pipes in the house are muddy and clogged and we need to get someone over to clean the whole plumbing of the house and to do it fairly soon or we will have a bigger problem.
This happens every single time something fairly big but good happens. Like when we bought our house. We move in and suddenly, money and job problems almost instantly. New car? The stupid water heating in the CEILING breaks down leaking into the house and destroying the ceiling in two rooms, then almost right after we have to get a new AC unit because it decided to quit working. Both those things are in the past but sometimes it really feels like fate thinks it's incredibly funny to make us pay heavily for anything good that might happen. And it's not like these things wait to happen either, they usually all happen within a week of the good thing happening.