OJ = Karma?
I don’t belive in karma, let’s be clear. Horrible people go to their graves having perpetrated awful crimes, and they are never held to account for it, nor suffer proportionate retribution. Wonderful, magnanimous people spend their lives digging themselves out of holes that they have not dug (story of Job, you Judeo-Christians out there?). I think it’s impossible for everyone to track their rights and wrongs to the degree that would prove it. I think life, along with being influenced by our daily choices, has a lot of chaos and randomness to it that we have the urge to make sense of.
I had a stepbrother at one time (one day I’ll post the wacky details of my various stepdads) who was one of the unluckiest people I’ve ever met. He seemed to suffer indignities and travails with amazing regularity. I thought he was a bit of an asshole to me, most of the time, but felt sorry for him that some small thing in his life went wrong so often. Those problems were far out of proportion to anything he ever did to me, or that I ever heard about. If karma exists, it seems to me that some of us are picking up the slack for other jerks in the world who are getting away with murder.
But sometimes, ah, sometimes it just seems so real I can’t help but wonder for the moment.
OJ Simpson was sentenced to prison today. Is this Universal payback? Stupidity and arrogance on his part? Karma? Today, for a bit, I was open to the possibility.
