misfortune

There's never going to be a time when things are perfectly alright, but it would be nice to have a few moments of peace. Sadly, this being life and all, that's kind of impossible. Misfortune is abundant and chaos has many names. It could be something as small as a dropped plate of spaghetti or as big as a tornado whipping a house away. A lot can go wrong.

Any resident of this planet is well aware that a lot can go wrong. Spaghettis will be dropped onto carpets. Dump trucks will explode. Frisbees will get stuck on roofs. At a certain point, all we can do is sit back and take in these many flavors of chaos while reminding ourselves that at least it doesn't happen to us every day.

We can't stop every bad thing from happening in our lives. We can do our best to mitigate errors of our own fault, but sometimes, for no good reason, there's a snake in your toilet and your tires explode. Sometimes we have to face that the world is unpredictable. And in that world, boy oh boy are there many flavors of chaos.

It's not hard to come up with ways that things could go wrong. The world is unpredictable. You could find a dangerous animal somewhere you'd rather not want to. You could get totally covered in paint during an accident. You could spill a whole bunch of eggs or a boulder could crush your car. As many flavors of failure and chaos there seem to be, life just keeps inventing more.

If you've been around for more than a few days, you've most likely come to the conclusion that the world is unpredictable. Phones get caught in bike chains, toilets get thrown through windshields, and giant pallets of eggs never seem to stay contained. With all the unforeseen chaos around us, all we can really do is be glad that we're probably not dealing with that exact problem ourselves.

Sometimes you can't know exactly how life is going to mess with your day. It could be as small as you forgetting to wear matching shoes, or it could be as big as your car getting completely covered in eel slime. You just can't know what kind of unfortunate moments of failure and chaos could be coming your way.

You never know when messes large and small can present themselves and wreak havoc upon your life. Your car could get eaten up by a sinkhole, you could accidentally leave a whole book in your washing machine, or you could get your keys stuck in your teeth. It's a decent reminder that uneventful days aren't bad days.

Life has it's conventional and sometimes expected lows, like getting fired or missing the bus, but sometimes it has refreshingly unconventional mishaps. Sometimes you're having a decently fine breakfast and a bat flies into your food. Sometimes you're tire is flattened not by a screw but by a throwing star. It's a reminder that oftentimes, uneventful days aren't bad days.

Misfortune can arise at any time, and in way too many flavors. It could be something as simple as ruined concrete or something as spectacular as a spilled truckload of herring. Also goose attacks. You can never forget about goose attacks. Wherever there are people, there are unfortunate moments of failure and chaos.

Sometimes the days you don't remember are the best ones. Not because anything particularly good happened, but because a strange and specific mishap did not happen. You can never be too sure of what mess large or small will be just over the horizon, but if one thing is for sure, it's that misfortune puts things in perspective.

There's something about strange and specific mishaps that have the power to put things in perspective. Even if it's a boring day, you can make that day seem slightly better when you realize you probably didn't have paint explode in your living room or a boulder land on your car.

As life gets weirder and weirder, strange moments of misfortune are still going on. While the world has it's challenges, people are still dropping mountains of eggs, having their lives invaded by cows, and leaving their car parked in the exact spot where it can get crushed. So here are some more Monday misfortune moments.

Unfortunate things happen all the time, but they usually fall under the category of "typical crap that happens to everybody." Here are some unfortunate moments of failure and chaos that you don't really expect, like 10,000 cracked eggs or a Frisbee in your windshield.

Misfortune and failure is primed to strike at any moment. The ways it can hit are often cartoonish, like a melting ice cream cake or an exploding glass coffee table. Sure we can be careful, watch our steps and keep our noses clean, but that still won't stop chaos and its friends from entering our lives.

Almost everyone would rather be relaxing at home than having to do any of this annoying "paying your bills" bullcrap, but as dark as some things can seem on Monday morning, they could certainly be worse. Misfortune Monday lets you see people dealing with the fallout of chaos and failure and serves as a good reminder that maybe things are going alright.

Yeah, Mondays are stupid. Most of us have to go back to work and deal with with our idiot bosses, horribly boring coworkers, demanding clients, and irrational customers. Whether you're dealing with a hangover or just the dread of another finished weekend, even a normal Monday isn't a good day. To put things in perspective, here is some misfortune, failure and general chaos to make your probably regular day seem a little better while you're on the toilet at work.