Best of Luck

by Jason Mott

You can make it less scary if you think of this horrible thing as just a person that you’re trying to send away, instead of thinking of it as death itself living inside your body.

When people think about karma, it’s basically ‘anytime bad things happen to someone you don’t like.’ But that’s not really what karma is. Karma is about balance. Hell, the whole universe only exists because of balance. For any one thing, there’s an equal amount of an opposite thing, you know? And that’s how we all get along. We move through all of this balance. “But let’s not confuse balance with justice. Those are two different animals. Justice is all about fairness, and I never said the universe was fair. No sir. Nothing about this universe is fair, and the only people who believe that are the people who haven’t lived long enough to have their stupidity corrected by life.”

All of it came and went. All the jokes, all the secrets, all the nothings that make up a friendship that spans decades.

It can never devour too much luck.”