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the universe's way of reminding you that your plans were always negotiable
means A calamity is an event of great and sudden misfortune or disaster, the kind that overturns lives and leaves wreckage in its wake.
from From Latin 'calamitas,' meaning damage, loss, or disaster. There's a charming folk story that it comes from 'calamus,' the stalk of grain, as in damage done to a crop by storm or blight — but scholars consider that link doubtful and unproven. The word arrived in English in the 1400s through French 'calamité,' carrying the heavy weight of ruin it still bears today.
- latin roots
- calamitas once described crops flattened by storms
- wild west
- Calamity Jane claimed disaster followed any man who crossed her
- opposite twin
- the word felicity is its joyful etymological mirror
- plural power
- calamities rarely arrive alone, hence the term cascade failure