June 13, 2007
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life and luck
I wonder why everyone’s life seems so screwed up? I think there was an idiot philsopher I once read who wrote about the inherent gap between our expectations and the reality in which we live that dooms us to live in near perpetual torment. We are hard wired for it, he argued. For some reason I can’t recall who it was. I’ll give you a cookie if you can tell me his name. Or maybe I just made that up right now. Anyway I think there is truth to it.
I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t regularly plagued with fear, uncertainty, and doubt; pain, anger, and regret. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t seem to forever be plagued by hardships, some unexpected, some expected, some (many? most?) caused by the person themself. Indeed it seems as if, if you notice someone who doesn’t seem to have any problems than that’s a person who you just don’t know very well. Either that or they are living in a cave. Actually that’s not true, every cave I’ve ever seen was rife with opportunities to encounter suffering. You’d have to live somewhere where all of your needs are taken care of without the least bit of effort and yet without needing to encounter anyone or anything at all. In short, an impossible scenario.
But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe there is somebody who is always content and never had a problem or a worry their entire life. If such a person exists and happens to be reading this blog, I implore you! Stop whatever you are doing! And run for president. Right now. In fact just go ahead and take over the world! We need your luck to guide us through the horrors of reality.
Or better yet, just come over here and be my familiar so that you can guard me from troubles and tribulations. How great would that be? If he were my familiar I could even send him out on missions to ensure that others find reprieve from strife. “Go forth luck familair! Save my friends from their folly!” Or something like that. And then when it is done I would call it back and give it a treat. Good job luck familiar. Thanks for a job well done.
Hmmm, I think I will write a story about a luck familiar. It will be a good story.
Alas in life we don’t have luck familiars and few of us will ever bridge that gap between our expectations and our experiences. But as we have no choice in that matter but to try, we might as well do our best and try to have fun with it if we can.
