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Have You Ever Unintentionally Broken the Law?

Posted on by jennrae

I think a couple of times. I may have turned right on red in Oregon. It is allowed in Washington state, but not sure if it is allowed there. I think I may have accidentally not paid for something once. Not sure. Probably around the time the self checkout stations at the grocery stores started getting popular. I don’t think it was anything big. I think I might have also paid for something and forgot to take it with me, so I guess I broke even there.

I am pretty law abiding, generally, if I am supposed to do something, that is what I do. Jaywalking makes me feel guilty. I do not intentionally do anything. I suppose I have speeded a few times but I try not to go more than five miles over the speed limit. I am not someone who breaks the law.

I have heard people try to make excuses about stealing from corporations not hurting people. I know that isn’t the case. The corporations never eat a cost, if something costs them, they always pass it onto the consumer. So, you and I end up paying for it one way or another.

They just put the retail theft cost and add it to the cost of the item. They will never just suck up a loss. They will never just pay an extra amount of tax. You guessed it, it will just be added to the cost.

That’s is why adding a rich tax or attempting a living wage here doesn’t work. It just makes it more expensive to live here. Washington is up there with California and Hawaii, and it used to not be.

Just in my lifetime the minimum wage has skyrocketed, and everything else increases at the same rate. So, I am not making any more money, really. I am just experiencing insane inflation.

Kind of frustrating. But no, the law is the law. If there is a law I don’t like, I would say so, but I would never intentionally break it. It just isn’t who I am.

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Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?
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Do You Believe In Destiny Or Fate?

Posted on by jennrae

I went from not really thinking about it at all, to being cynical and jaded and thinking “Is this All There is?”, back to thinking yes, there is something behind it all after all. Currently, yes, I do believe in fate or destiny. I think things happen for a reason even if we don’t understand that reason, and there does seem to be a point to it all. There have been times where I thought I should be dead now, but something intervened, somehow it wasn’t my time.

If you had told me I would still be here in my mid forties to me in my twenties, I wouldn’t have believed you. I thought I would die young, not sure how, or why, but I just didn’t feel like I belonged in this world. I never felt like I fit into any particular mold. I had trouble relating to people or making close friendships. I had trust issues that have only gotten worse.

So, why would I believe in destiny or fate now? If you asked me a few months ago I probably would have told you I don’t. But, sometimes things, or dominoes fall a certain way and change your view or thought process. And, that happened to me in November. I can’t fully explain it, not without sounding insane, but I will say, much like the butterfly effect, little things lead to bigger things, and alter one’s life path. However much I try to choose or do down a different path, I am always brought back to a certain place. I do not know the future. But, I do know what I should be doing.

There is a reason I say I am a writer, and not a published author. I am not a published author, although I would like to be someday. The good thing about that is it is a pathway that isn’t limited by age or looks, but ideas. I have ideas, I just need to follow through and put them down. I do believe I have a destiny, and I do believe there is a point to all this. I don’t claim to know it, or understand it, but I know it is there. I know where my path is supposed to lead if I can get out of my own way.