Tempting Fate: Come and Get Me, Bia.

I don’t really believe in luck. I also don’t really believe in “God,” at least not the idea of an Allmighty Father sitting up on a cloud, watching all of us and deciding who gets to come into Heaven. And it’s totally fine if you do, in fact, thank you, because without that kind of faith in the world, a shit ton of the philanthropy and other amazing endeavors that are accomplished throughout the world every day would not be, and that’s pretty huge. I’m also not really “spiritual” or whatever the people who don’t want to be labeled by a particular religion are calling it these days.

Actually, I should be more clear. It’s not that I don’t believe in anything, it’s that I choose not to worry about something that can’t be known. I just don’t have any idea, and I don’t pretend to. As such, I am, I suppose, a member of the “Carpe Diem” camp; whatever’s going to happen, or not happen, when I do eventually croak and become worm food and all that, is inevitable. I don’t think I can change it by not sleeping with someone before we get hitched, or by giving alms to the poor, or by loving my neighbor. More importantly, I’m just not willing to waste my short, SHORT life being all pious and whatnot. I’m just too damn selfish for that.

If you do something to make someone else happy, for no reason at all, that’s wonderful, and reflective of the kind of person you are – but it just doesn’t really fit into my personal philosophy, which is simply to do anything I can to make the lives of both myself and those I love as amazing as possible.

Of course there are boundaries and exceptions to the philosophy. My moral code basically consists of not infringing upon the basic human rights of other people. This is tricky, because the definition of said human rights generally differs from person to person, and if I had to guess, mine tends to lean to the side of “more relaxed” than most. That’s a post for another time…

So how does all this work out? Well, that brings us to the second part of my life philosophy… While I will do whatever it takes for the happiness of myself and my loved ones, I am still well aware of one very important fact:

Karma is a bitch.