An original piece for Lithium Chloride fic
'Lucky Charms'
People used all kinds of things to give them luck Rabbits Feet, Horseshoes, Etc. Other people used things that where stranger. Hell he knew a guy who would carry around a pair of socks that were supposedly "Lucky".
But what were Lucky Charms really. That is what he wanted to know. He knew they were little trinkets people believed in and he knew they were the cereal he ate for breakfast in the morning, but what were they beyond that.
Why did people believe in them and did they actually work? They were just objects. Weren't they?
Carrying them around all the time is obviously gonna make them seem lucky doesn't mean they're lucky. Does it?
He needed to figure this out, it was driving him crazy. So he experimented. He started carrying around a little trinket of his own, a small coin from a foreign country.
And just as believed nothing happened; so he stopped carrying it. He put it away and forgot about it.
Years later he had moved up in the world. No longer did he live in his parents basement nor did he work in that office with no windows. He was in a good paying job in New York and was finally ready to maybe get married and have kids.
Tonight was the night. An old childhood friend from Oklahoma had started working on another floor and they decided to get together for a dinner. He was planning to ask her out afterwords.
While fishing for his tie he felt something. Curious he pulled it from the draw and saw it was his 'Lucky Charm'.
It was then that he noticed the time. Putting the coin in his pocket he threw on his tie and grabbed his keys as he rushed out the door.
After the dinner he walked her home and asked her on a second date. To his relief she agreed. As he walked home he felt the coin in his pocket.
"Maybe there is something to 'lucky charms' bring luck."
'Lucky Charms'
People used all kinds of things to give them luck Rabbits Feet, Horseshoes, Etc. Other people used things that where stranger. Hell he knew a guy who would carry around a pair of socks that were supposedly "Lucky".
But what were Lucky Charms really. That is what he wanted to know. He knew they were little trinkets people believed in and he knew they were the cereal he ate for breakfast in the morning, but what were they beyond that.
Why did people believe in them and did they actually work? They were just objects. Weren't they?
Carrying them around all the time is obviously gonna make them seem lucky doesn't mean they're lucky. Does it?
He needed to figure this out, it was driving him crazy. So he experimented. He started carrying around a little trinket of his own, a small coin from a foreign country.
And just as believed nothing happened; so he stopped carrying it. He put it away and forgot about it.
Years later he had moved up in the world. No longer did he live in his parents basement nor did he work in that office with no windows. He was in a good paying job in New York and was finally ready to maybe get married and have kids.
Tonight was the night. An old childhood friend from Oklahoma had started working on another floor and they decided to get together for a dinner. He was planning to ask her out afterwords.
While fishing for his tie he felt something. Curious he pulled it from the draw and saw it was his 'Lucky Charm'.
It was then that he noticed the time. Putting the coin in his pocket he threw on his tie and grabbed his keys as he rushed out the door.
After the dinner he walked her home and asked her on a second date. To his relief she agreed. As he walked home he felt the coin in his pocket.
"Maybe there is something to 'lucky charms' bring luck."