Blog 3775 – 03.13.2026

Friday the 13th, O Happy Day!

Some people think Friday the Thirteenth is an unlucky day. The stories of unfortunate events occurring on Friday the Thirteenth are many and varied, but the same could be said of any day of the week. I recall a poem for each of the days of the week that says “Wednesday’s child if full of woe.” Having myself been born on a Wednesday I can assure that sentiment is not true.

I have had and am still enjoying a wonderful life.

Just yesterday my wife, who struggles with paranoia, depression and is plagued by auditory hallucinations that taunt her with terrible threats said aloud to me, thinking that I had said one of those terrible things to her, “I hope you are happy!” The way she said it sounded very much like she meant the opposite. Under my breath I said to myself (for I have learned it is fruitless to argue with these delusions: “I am happy, I have always, been and expect to be happy tomorrow as well.”

Some make a distinction between joyfulness and happiness by saying that happiness depends on what happens and joy does not. I think joyfulness and happiness are synonymous and neither dependent upon the day of the week nor circumstances.

Blessed or happy is the man, woman or child who sees the rainbow even in the rain and is not threatened by the storm nor fearful of dark clouds or rainy days, Mondays or Friday the Thirteenth(s). Many folks in Jesus day were religious/ superstitious and believed that “bad things” befell people as judgments from an angry God. Jesus tried to dissuade them from these mistaken notions by saying that God causes his rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

Yesterday, I used a line from the Terminator movies, “There is no fate, but what we make.” I do not believe in luck, either good or bad. We all hear voices, the still small voice of our higher best self and the loud accusing and discouraging voice from our lower shadow self who to me is puny little ego from whom the myth of Satan a roaring lion seeking who he may devour derives. We get to choose which voices we deem true and continue listening to.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

O, Happy Day!