Life isn’t fair. Wow, why would I write something everyone already knows?
Because in the grand scheme of things I still want it to be fair! I want to believe that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction across the board, not just when it is an actual physical move.
And maybe there is. Maybe I just don’t always see, or understand the reaction, or the timing of it. When I hit something with a hammer I don’t really notice the reverberations through my arm. At least not most of the time, but they are there.
When someone does something hurtful, to me or to you, I want to turn around and slap them in the face saying, “Wake up! Why are you doing this? Do you realize what you are doing?”
That would feel sooooo good! But it probably wouldn’t do anything except assuage my need for revenge, which is only another hurtful action.
The universe is wiser than that. It allows me to go along doing my “thing,” making changes in my world time after time until my feelings, my voting, my responses to all the things that come at me build up and become strong enough to change the world around me. Then the reality of that descends upon me and I have to live with it.
Some of us notice. Others do not, but it doesn’t negate the consequences. If I embrace the idea that we are really all one and can extract myself from taking everything personally, life is probably more fair than I care to imagine. In those old old words of wisdom, God, or nature, or the law of science, whatever I call the highest power, is pretty clear about the way things work, “visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,”
Were I able to see into the future, I might understand how the reaction to my actions affects my great great grandchildren. It just takes time. The universe works on a much larger scale than my puny understanding.
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