Saeyeong Jima Plays Out In Life

writers digest prompt write a lucky/unlucky poem The Korean Proverb saeyeong jima recently came to life in my life The meaning of the proverb Is that you can never know whether something will be good or bad and that unexpectedly what appears to be bad fortune turns out to be a good fortune The proverb played out recently in my life about lunar New Year's Day we were preparing to go to Thailand from two weeks from our home in South Korea and then at the end of February we would do to go to DC My wife blew out her lumber desk and we were forced to cancel our trips This occurred just as the coronavirus was taking out around the world and if we had gone we may have been stuck either in Thailand or we may have been stuck in the United States and traveling in the mist of a corona outbreak would probably mean that we would have been exposed to the virus instead we were forced to stay home and self quarantine ourselves and therefore we escaped being exposed to the coronavirus and we feel much safer here in Korea where the outbreak is contained rather than in DC where it is still spreading everywhere so in a sense her misfortune throwing out her disk which resulted in us staying at home and avoiding the coronavirus is the true meaning of the Korean Chinese expression saeyeong jima