Even though I'm 32 and not fresh out of high school and even though I've SEEN that rule #1 is true it still never ceases to amaze me. How UNFAIR life can be is endless suprise and consternation. One always HOPES that things will be fair but they so rarely aren't.
I recall this truth being made frighteningly real to me when my husband was in an accident and hospitalized. We had learned of another man who was admitted the day after hubby was admitted. He also has a head injury and basal skull fracture in the same places as hubby. There Joe was on day three doing worse then ever, with Pneumonia and Staph infection taking over in his lungs besides the coma and head injury keeping him unconcious. Then we got word that their procedure to suck some of the infection from his lungs had helped, his fever had begun to drop finally, and that he was moving his hand and foot. Only an hour later we learned that our friends in the Neurological ICU waiting room had lost THEIR father and brother. He had much the same injuries and no infection but yet he died and my husband lived. For them, there could be no fairness to life at all. Were we lucky? Destined? Who knows. Life AIN'T fair.
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"Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama
My Karma just ran over your Dogma.
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