Not My Fault
Once I worked with a guy.
He was a very zealous born again Christian.
Always trying to convert me.
Once, he came into work and mentioned that he’d burned his toast.
Not once, not twice, but three times.
His response was that God didn’t want him to have toast that morning.
He said it only half seriously.
I didn’t say, but was thinking:
Maybe God is sending you a message to learn how to use a toaster?
A lot of people treat “God” this way.
A kind of bucket for all the things that didn’t quite work out.
I’m still single and that means that “God” has a plan for me.
They didn’t hire me and that means that “God” didn’t want me to work there.
We’re having a hard time closing our new house, and that might mean that “God” doesn’t want us to live there.
God is a lot of things to a lot of people.
For for some people, some times, God is the ultimate “moral hazard.”
Moral hazard is an economic term, and an insurance term.
If you KNOW you are going to get bailed out, it increases the chance of getting bailed out.
Handy Excuse
If you always have the “God wanted…” or “God didn’t want…” excuse in the back of your mind, you never really need to try.
You never need to take much of a risk.
Some people live their entire lives like that.
Only doing things that are easy so they can say “God willed it…”
Never taking any risks.
Never leaving their comfort zones.
All waiting around for “God” to show them the way.
This related to what Jung said:
“Unless you make the unconscious conscious, it will run your life and you will call it fate.”
What does this mean for us?
Consider that when Jung said “unconscious,” we can replace that with “instincts.”
The ancient behavioral drivers of our lives.
Both our entire lives and our daily lives.
Unless you understand specifically what these are, you’ll bounce around like a ping pong ball in a hurricane your whole life.
Hazard God
Always blaming “God” or “fate” or “luck.”
But if you do understand these instincts?
You’ll understand a lot more about life.
A lot more about people’s behavior.
Particularly romantic behavior.
Because when it comes to us humans, and any other animal, there are ONLY three things.
Food (or money for humans), reproduction, and not dying.
Every other instinct, including all our social instincts are there to SUPPORT those three needs.
Money, sex, and not dying.
Understand these instincts, understand everything.
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