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Dear Greg,

What’s wrong with me, why can’t I catch a break? I always get “downsized” at jobs, dumped after the first date or completely overlooked because my best friend is prettier than me. I’m the person that has to be thankful for bad luck otherwise I’d have no luck at all. Now there’s this guy who I really like and he only knows me as the girl who dropped her new phone in the toilet at work. Why would he even like me much less want to go out with me? For once I just wish something good would happen to the girl standing next to the pretty girl.

Florence

Quebec, Canada

Hey Flo,

Hard on yourself much? Look, being clumsy is fine, in fact it can be cute, but being clumsy or having bad luck is not your problem. You’re treading water in a personal crisis because don’t even kind of like yourself or think you deserve good things. If you’re running for the title in the Miss Victim Of Her Own Life you definitely have a good shot but I’d suggest you step down from that pageant and try to get involved in the Miss I Like Myself competition. And by the way, who cares if your best friend is prettier than you and why is it that you like her better than you like yourself? If you want anyone including the guy at work to like you, you have to start liking yourself first. As for the catching a break part, you have to make your own breaks and optimize those before the universe will start dropping them at your feet. So next time you drop your mobile phone down the toilet just turn to the guy you like at work and playfully say, “Which do you think is hotter, that I dropped my phone in the toilet or that I went in after it?” Or “I’d offer you my phone so you can call my voicemail to ask me out but it’s on vacation in the ladies’ room.” Be confident, have a sense of humor about life’s little trials and see if you can’t give yourself a break!