Did You Ever Get The Feeling That The Universe Hates You?

One of the running questions that I receive from people is, “Why do bad things happen to good people?”

I know, you may be asking yourself why anyone would ask a novelist such a philosophical question.  Well, because I’m not just a novelist.  Writing C. D. Blizzard books is not all that I do.  And, I’ll tell you a little secret, I write under so many different names, I’ve run out of pseudonyms.  So, having spent time in consultation with people and working with people face-to-face for several years, the aforementioned question has been posed by these good people many times over.  Not to mention that I ask this same question nearly every day of my life.  It seems like evil is running amok and getting worse by the day.

“Why do bad things happen to good people, while bad people get everything they want and seem to fly through life with no problems?”

My only answer is… “Because bad people are so convinced that the world owes them something, everything, that they also have the universe convinced of this notion as well.”

It’s rare that you ever hear bad people make any mention of feelings of regret or remorse.  Nope.  Most of the time they are yapping about what this person or that person owes them or what they are going to do to this person or that person as retribution for something.  Their line of thinking is very direct and very demanding.  I want, I want, I want.  You owe me, you owe me, you owe me.

Any of you readers out there who are into the metaphysical or even the new age blend of quantum physics may already know where I am going with this.  If it’s true that we create our reality by what we think and say on a regular basis, then bad people get everything they want because they think and say that the universe owes them.

It still doesn’t seem fair, though, does it?  Especially on those days when everything is going wrong, and it doesn’t seem like there’s a shoulder anywhere out there that you can lean on.

I can only offer this: believe in yourself.  Work hard at convincing you that you believe in yourself.

Lucky for me, I have a Mooch.  When I am convinced that the Universe hates my guts, she convinces me that at the very least, she still loves me.  And then she goes and rolls in raccoon poop, and I’m convinced that she did it on purpose just to annoy me.  Hey, life’s a trade-off, right?

Copyright 2008  C. D. Blizzard     

C. D. Blizzard is the author of the novels Blackwater, Profile, and Broken..

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