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A week ago, I had a bad day. I just missed a train, got off at the wrong stop, turned the wrong way out of the station, got caught in a turnstile … You get the picture.
By noon, I realized that this was a bad day and that everything that could go wrong would go wrong. By one in the afternoon, I was enjoying myself. Having accepted that the day was going to be a total wash, I found myself laughing at fate’s pathetic attempts to wreck my mood. Stepping in dog poop? Dealing with aggressive beggars? Getting on the wrong train line and ending up in Parkchester? Not a problem. By the time night rolled around, I was daring fate to do her worst.
Bad days are pretty relative. I’ve had friends for whom the wrong color lip gloss or a little frizziness could spell a psyche-twisting descent into total misery. On the other hand, I’ve had friends for whom getting a speeding ticket, having food poisoning, and breaking a bone were merely hiccups, easily overcome.
In the annals of bad days, last Tuesday was a doozy. After consistent drops in value over the course of this year, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s stock fell 5%, to a nine-month low. For Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this meant a reported personal loss of $8.6 billion dollars. Of course, the misery of this bad day is relative. After all, while their stock loss is much more money than I and everyone I know will make over the course of our entire lives, it only represents a fraction of Brin and Page’s total value. Still, what a killer!
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