As I sit in the beautiful sunlight, next to my vegetable plants, watching Parking Wars on my laptop, drinking delicious instant iced coffee on my paid vacation that not everyone has the luxury of having, I know that no matter how many days I feel like this, I am still luckier than many.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Contingency Plan
It has occurred to me recently that people are afraid of randomness. Scared that things happen randomly, with no purpose. So we assign guilt and justice to those events that can't possibly be random. That someone has unfortunate circumstances because they deserved it or didn't pray hard enough or gave up, and the other guy must have just been higher up on life's scale of "trying really hard". We sit around and tell ourselves that someone else failing has caused their circumstances. They just didn't fight hard enough. Humans seem incapable of believing that rewards and punishments show up randomly and without just cause.
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