It's so true. I don't know when it got instilled in me that I can't think of anything good without coming up with some terrible correllary. If I'm attracted to someone, I'm sure he thinks I'm a hideous troll. If I want to do something, I'm sure that circumstances will fall in such a way that I'll never get to do it. It's a trait that runs through my family.
Mom is very superstitious about talking about good things.
She worries that if you look forward to something too much, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Lee's kind of the same way, too. She'll never get married. She'll never own a house. I do it all the time, too.