Waiting for 'Lucky Girl Syndrome' to kick in
How long do I hold my crystals and tell myself I'm awesome in the mirror?
The 3+ hours a day I spend on TikTok are compiled with either videos of creators telling me how to manifest, giving me a Tarot card reading that ends in me finding the love of my life “VERY SOON”, or teaching me how to practice what’s known as “Lucky Girl Syndrome.”
I’m naturally lean more on the side of a pessimistic person. I tend to look at the glass half empty instead of full, get anxious or upset if something goes wrong during my day, and find it hard to focus on getting through something if it’s extremely taxing.
I also believe in manifestation, and have multiple things in my life to prove for it. However, when ‘Lucky Girl Syndrome’ was first introduced onto my FYP, I was a little skeptical.
If you aren’t aware of this phenom, I’ll break it down for you. Basically, you create an inner mantra that repeats this sentiment over and over: The universe wants good things to happen to me. What I want to happen will happen because I am a lucky girl. Everything will work out for me.
There are different variations, but apparently, if you repeat this over and over again to yourself, you’ll trick your subconscious into making those things happen. Whether it’s the job you want, the income you want, the apartment or house you want, the partner you want, or just the life you want.
I definitely believe in positive reinforcement, and that what you put out into the universe will be given back to you. I also think that if you’re aware that you’re manifesting and actively engaging in it, you’ll just placebo-effect yourself into believing it’s coming true—like some sort of positive delusion (I mean, if it works, it works!).
However, if you’re like me, you find it hard to believe in the universe 100% of the time, and sometimes get frustrated with the lack of result. I mean, I can hardly time find to write this blog (hence the two week incidental hiatus before this is being posted) despite the hours a day I spend watching TV, or in my bed, or on my phone, or just contemplating what to do. How am I supposed to find time to look in the mirror, tell myself I’m a beautiful, lucky, lucky girl every single day?
It’s also hard to believe in a TikTok trend, putting faith into people who just post in order to go viral and hopefully be invited on a Tarte influencer trip. Are they actually a Tarot card reader? Or are they just shuffling a deck of cards and speaking nonsense for a minute to rack up 500,000 likes and 10,000 comments that say “CLAIMING THIS!!!!”?
The truth lies somewhere in between. Lucky Girl Syndrome TikToks will give you the result that you “claim” them to have. If you believe in it, you’ll trick yourself into thinking it’s happening, yielding a motivated, more happy self that believes good things are on the horizon, or are already happening. And what’s the problem with that? Those people are probably more likely to live an existence that proves beneficial results versus the person who wastes energy thinking how stupid it is (me).
How I feel about Lucky Girl Syndrome is similar to how I feel about New Years resolutions. I desperately want to believe in them and that they’ll make my life better, but I have a hard time keeping up. I’ve already lost my Duolingo streak (40 days in, at least), and tend to pick binge watching TV and rotting my brain with TikToks instead of anything more mindful.
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But still, it’s something I’m going to make more of an effort into becoming a habit for myself. I’ve already practiced catching my negative or anxious thoughts at the point inception, forcing myself to repeat a mantra that convinces me that this is just a bump in the road, and that happier, better things will come out of this (which in fact, they will).
For now, I’ll continue to like, save, repost, send, or interact with any manifestation TikTok I see, tricking myself into believing that abundance will be given to me with every positive thought I put out. I mean, it’s kind of fun to see life through the eyes of something great is about to happen instead of the world is ending, no?
Send this to someone who never skips a manifestation TikTok.
Could not agree more