If you’re lucky you don’t or won’t have to pay for mistakes committed in life—even early in your adult life—but obviously legions of people aren’t that lucky and hence have to pay a stiff penance later in life for earlier malfeasance if they even make it that far down the temporal pathway; many do not. This may not sound especially fair, but we should all know by now that fate and its handmaiden luck are the least fair arbiters we’ll ever encounter. Luck merely happens; it is never planned or prearranged. Ditto fate. And if you happen to draw the short straw on any particular day or night or in any particular life, there unfortunately isn’t one fuckin’ thing you can do about it. Fate is not hypothetically a temperamental bitch; fate IS a temperamental bitch.
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