Do you know who you can never trust? Anyone that says “you can trust me.”  That person is an untrustworthy fool.  Trust me.

The idea of faith and destiny permeates through countless religions, cultures, and cliché’s.  The concept of Karma, the rational of “what God intended,” even fun songs like Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be).  We often justify hardships in our lives though this type of thinking.  The Divine Plan.

Okay then God…Gaia… Universe… whatever.  Why are you always trying to convince people to trust in your plan? Who says your plan is so great anyway?  And what makes you so deserving of my trust?  You are kind of forcing it on me, and being really pushy.

And if I am supposed to believe in this cosmic vision of my life, then how am I supposed to have any dreams of my future?  What is the point of striving for anything, when everything is already decided?  For instance, lets say I had this ambition, something really important to me, like being best friends with Sarah Silverman.  I could write her a bunch of letters, got to her house and leave gifts on her doorstep, send her 10,000 messages on twitter, and I all I get is being called a stalker.  She is not my best friend at all.  You can tell me that God didn’t want me to be friends with Sarah Silverman, or maybe she is just a snobby bitch.

My point is that there are all these things I have wanted in my life that didn’t happen.  I would get through the pain and disappointment by trusting the universe, and believing that “everything happens for a reason.”  But why do we have so much blind faith in a force that has no explanation, no tangibility, and also seems like kind of a dick?  I think Gaia has been wrong about many things that didn’t go the way I wanted them to.  For instance;

• I should have grown gills to breath underwater.
• I definitely should have been granted the power to stop time so I could sleep late when I ever I wanted, cheat on any test I didn’t study for, have the time to learn a second language, rob a bank and never get caught, kiss people I never got to kiss even if they are all frozen in time, you know… stuff like that.
• I absolutely should have gotten all the jobs I wanted and didn’t, all the love I craved and missed, and not to mention the stomach of a cow so I could have 4 compartments whatever I wanted.