Marc Berry

Two jinxes and a charm

May 29, 2007 |  10 comments
Image Credit: stockxpert I have met two jinxes in my life. The first was a fellow I went to school with, and continued to have occasional association with for years afterwards. I didn't really think about, or even notice, the effect he was having until the last year or two of our association. For that matter, I didn't really want to, for he was a friend. However, every time I saw him, my wife and I would fight. Every single time, whether or not she knew we had met, and often over nothing at all. It took some time, but I eventually began to notice the pattern, and as I slowly excised him from my life, the fights diminished to the more normal, infrequent arguments that occur in marriage. Certainly nothing like what we had been experiencing. It also bears noting that this man's personal relationships with the fairer sex were unilaterally disastrous. I met the second only recently, but am equally certain that he is also a jinx. Bad luck and misfortune swirl around him, a miasmic cloud of impending misery and frustration just waiting to pounce upon the unwary. It seems to manifest somewhat differently than that of my former friend, though. This man's effect is one of creating frustration, usually in the form of an accident requiring time and effort to clean up. A distraction from other, more important things that need to get done, and an almost vampiric draining of energies.

The counter point to a jinx would be a charm. I'm sure that there are people out there who are charms, but if I have ever met one, I didn't notice. I imagine that a charm would spread good luck and positivity wherever they go. The question is, can we decide which we want to be? I think so. A jinx is a jinx because of some decision they have made, an energy that they have cultivated throughout their lives that breeds and encourages the spread of negative energies. So then it follows that a charm would follow the same pattern, and yet there seem to be depressingly few around.There is no doubt that we have an influence on our environment, and the people we encounter. It's just that negativity seems to spread at an exponential rate, while positivity crawls upstream with bricks on its feet. Why? Honestly, I don't know, but I do know that we are wired for stress. Human beings live on a fight or flight basis, reacting to fear and threat faster than love and faith. And yet love is what ultimately drives the universe, creating all that is good and worthy of our attention and devotion. Perhaps it is that fear and stress are immediate and short term, leading to short term solutions, while love and courage are long term, and as such do not yield immediate results. It's hard to feel like you are making progress when there is no progress to be seen.Here's the catch, though: the jinx ultimately self destructs. Destroyed relationships, failed careers, and general misery at every turn. The charm, though beset by the same misfortunes, will ultimately succeed, if we define success as happiness. A charm may not become a gazillionaire, but they will never lack. They may not make CEO, but they will have job satisfaction. Most importantly, their relationships will be rich, rewarding and a never ending source of strength and joy.

Jinx or charm, your energy is your own responsibility. It stems from your day to day decisions and actions, your cultivated attitudes and the people that you choose to enrich your life with. It is up to you to make the upstream swim, bricks and all, for to give in to the prevailing attitudes of negativity is to drown in an ocean of misery, alone in the crowd. Love is the only real survival strategy. Are you a survivor?

MBerry is co-founder of NewBranes.com, a blog covering all aspects of the paranormal.
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