The Goddess of luck

I trust religion about as much as I trust Santa Claus and cheap oil prices.

What the fuck is religion? I have wondered what is the point of not eating non-vegetarian food on a Tuesday to impress some entity? Lowkey, why does the entity care? What is the point of wasting so much money in building fancy places to worship some power up there when you do not even know if it is real? And reliability — why is this higher power not reliable? Sometimes when good things happen, then we go "it's all due to the higher power." When something goes bad, we go, "Oh, the higher power has something bigger for us down the line." Why is it so convenient to just pick up any holy book to justify fucking anything going on in the world? As a child growing up, I have had questions; I have been rebellious. But I do not ask these questions to go against what the crowd believes in, with the intentions of being unique and distinct. I just like believing in shit organically — once I have played with it for quite a while with my bare hands, then I can bet on it. You cannot just fit me into a box; it is just not how it works, buddy.

I don't know if your brain clocked it or not, but I do not believe in religion as such. I don't hate the concept; I am just not that intrigued enough to commit to the idea completely. But recently, I have been experimenting and asking myself the question: "How would a belief in an entity you do not even know exists help you out in doing your daily day-to-day activities?" And the answer is simple enough. It's Hope. When people face immense hardships and they can't for the life of them find a solution, they ask for help from the universe itself — anything that can help them and give them the power to get back up.

What I have recently come up with to help me get out of bed is inventing this idea of the goddess of luck. All my life growing up, I have been told that I am a very lucky person, and I have seen a lot of events that were not at all in my favor go in my favor too many times for it to be just a coincidence. So I believe that there is this goddess up there. She handles the uncertainty department for people and also gambles her money on the side using an offshore account based in Switzerland for shits and giggles (because, you know, she handles uncertainty, so in this case, the house never wins). This Goddess likes some people more than the others, and it's purely preference, I guess. For the people she likes, she has their best interest in mind at all times, without them needing to do anything. For others, she is bit moody. I like to believe that she likes me, because the amount of times I have faced tricky situations and overcame them a bit too smoothly is suspicious. So I like to think that her model to help people out is simple: do your 95 percent, and she will make sure that the 5 percent margin of uncertainty does not bother your growth. So, currently, when I can't seem to escape the gravitational pull of my bed, I tell myself "that the goddess of luck is calling," and somehow I can find energy to get up. So that is kind of cool. And maybe that is what is religion is to most people: it's charging at the difficult things, believing that someone big has got your back when you fall down.

What I am going to do now is try and explore what more ideas or gods from different mythologies I find cool enough to believe in, and add them as one of my schizophrenic characters in my life. Fun summer plan indeed.

Overall, in my opinion, if there is a god, he's a cool god. He's updated with the latest lingo in the world, he laughs at memes just as we do, he isn't this all-supreme serious entity — he is just and good, but he is lowkey chill too. If I had to believe in a god to get that extra boost, I would believe in a cool god — the guy who knows every niche detail about me and understands me for what I am truly, the kind of god that laughs at that bad joke that I chose to discard in my head 20 social interactions ago. The kind of god that just sort of dilly-dallies on the side. The kind of god who knows niche information about what the Lululemon channel uploaded during May 2018. A god who is more like a friend with some superpowers than an "OH LOOK AT ME, I AM A BIG AND POWERFUL GOD" ahh god.

I think this is enough nerding out for one night. See ya later, people.