Sometimes things don't go the way they are supposed to. Sometimes the dog dies. Sometimes there is no happy ending. Sometimes suffering is unrelieved.
And always -- we wonder why. Why is it that some people suffer hardships again and again? Have they done something to deserve their fate? Are they being "punished" somehow by fate, or god, or God, or their own soul? Is there a statistical element involved that says: "some people have all the luck -- whether it is good, or whether it is bad?"
To all those questions I would respond: the world is clearly out of whack! There is nothing about existence, or life, or being an American, or being rich, or being black, or being white, or being female, or being male -- that is fair or equitable. As we strive to live a cognitive life that has balance in it -- as we work to keep ourselves from the extremes of stress or its opposite -- as we live; we must recognize that things are out of balance and we can be swept up easily in movement that are far beyond any sense of control.
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