the lesson of becoming bad luck

The most surprising lesson I've ever learned is that people become their bad luck. I mean this lesson literally, in the sense that at some point the outcome of chance defines you better than the trajectory forever altered by unseen circumstance. There is a point in the aftermath of any unfortunate moment where everyone comes together and laments the bad luck, but at some point this detail fades from the memory and the victim is recast into the script of a rewritten life. I thought I'd have a lot more to say about this but it's actually quite straightforward. If you break your leg in a fluke moment on Tuesday, by Friday those circumstances don't really matter anymore; life confronts you with the reality of a staircase, and God knows if you'll make it to the top.