A good friend’s house burns down.
Another friend gets laid off.
A third loses a family member unexpectedly.
These people are kind, giving, funny, charitable, sweet, family-oriented individuals who have given their time, money, and heart for the things they believe in. They have my unending respect for the things they done, ways they’ve given back to the world around them, and, in one case, gotten through a couple of health scares that would have left me in a straightjacket.
I’m really, really tired of seeing bad things happen to good people who’ve done nothing to deserve the short straws they’ve drawn recently. I know we all have to each endure our own ration of lousy luck in this world, but the naive side of me always hopes that people who make the extra effort to be generous in thought, word, or deed will get a free pass from tragedy or heartbreak.
Sadly, this isn’t always so.
If the powers that be need a list of people who are more deserving of crap like losing a job or having their homes burn to the ground, I’m more than happy to provide it.
Bad things happen in life as the whole cosmic system is governed by inscrutable laws of Karma… as we sow so shall we reap… nothing less or more! If they were only happiness in life… all would become monotonous… meaningless! Only when we suffer… we understood true value of happiness… never otherwise!