Murphy and the X-Factor

Ever heard of Murphy's Law? Although it's often misqouted (which is what I am also about to do), it goes something like this, "when something can go wrong, it will."

I believe though that Murphy is too negative. So I call it by another name. The X-factor. The X-factor is something that can either make or break something. Say you join a contest and you prepared well for it. It turns out the questions asked were difficult for you so you lost. On the other hand, say you joined just for the heck of joining and then you win. In both these cases, you had the X-factor.

There are other names for this. Good and Bad luck. Yin and Yang. Good and Bad Karma. Call it what you will. It's all the same.

The thing about the X-factor though is how you deal with it. Now I won't talk about the X-factor working for you except that you enjoy it. I wanna focus when it works against you.

What do you do then when it works against you? Simple. You accept it. Most people, when trouble smacks them in the face, they either run away from it or pretend its not there. What happens then is it snowballs. It becomes bigger until it reaches a point when they cannot handle it anymore and breakdown. Skeptics to this idea may say that they can handle it and have done it over and over again. But I say this, we all breakdown sometime. The question is just when.

So if you have problems, face it. If you can't solve it alone, then ask help.

Remember, though life is simple, its never easy.