"It's Always Something"

Well, if that isn’t one of the most obvious statements ever made!  I can’t actually believe that someone said that one time and then it became  a “saying” like “things happen for a reason” and “It is what it is”.  Picture the scenario… you lost your job, your wife ran off with the mailman, the cat has been missing for days and just when you think it couldn’t get any worse.. the milk in the fridge is sour!  You call up your Mom to tell her  this unbelievable new development and she says… “It’s always something.”  As a way to console you.

Of course it’s always something because otherwise it would be nothing!  There! That’s my new response to “It’s always something”.  But I kind of get the concept behind it all.  I think that the Universe becomes very comfortable with how things all work together.  There is a fragile and necessary relationship between everything that is.  It is somewhat like a pyramid and we are constantly subjected to the trials and tribulations of our particular position in its structure.  In other words, the Universe likes to keep everything secure in the foundation.  That’s why we can’t all be Donald Trump.  Throughout our history of existence, a “cast system” or closed social system, allowed some distinctive privileges and unequal rights, while others had no chance to rise above their station. You were born into your place in the big pyramid of life and there was no getting to the top.  Those were and are, government systems put in place to benefit the chosen.  But sometimes I think the Universe has a “Caste System”. “Something” always keeps you where you are.  Hence… “It’s Always Something”.  I’m not complaining.  I am fortunate to be in a rather pleasant position and I have been able to maintain my “station” so to speak.  

I have been going to Physical therapy for a shoulder issue.  It’s been costing me a  $20 co-pay which means I am lucky and have health insurance (thanks to my late husband Tom).  Still, $20 three times a week adds up!  So yesterday, they tell me insurance thinks I’m good enough and I have to continue the program at home.  Ok.  I can do that and it saves me $60 a week.  I’ve been wanting to buy an outdoor gas grill for Joe. (He likes meat).  Last night when I get out of work, my car doesn’t start.  Dead.  Called AAA, they came, gave me a charge, sent me on my way.  I almost didn’t make it home but when I did, car dead again.   Ok.  I call AAA again this morning but they can’t help me because there is a giant fire in a transformer recycling plant nearby and we all have to stay inside (including car repair guys)  I call work, they have it covered.   AAA finally comes to look .. not sure but they think it is the alternator AND the battery!  (It appears as though I should NOT have driven home after the AAA guy not so charged  my battery last night)  It’s ok.  Really.  Because I can pay for the repairs.  After all I was paying $60 a week for the last month.  It’s probably going to cost a little more than that which means that not too much can go wrong in September.  I paid for my broken tooth/crown, and my shoulder is getting better so it might mean I could get a strange rash or something easy like that.  No matter what I think the car repairs will cost… it will be more.  At least I have a car 

 Like I said, The Universe must always keep things balanced.  It really is “always something”.  And if you want to be on top… there’s going to be A LOT of something.  I do not want to hit the lottery because I cannot imagine the catastrophe that would cost me a million bucks afterwards!