The name of this website means something different to me now. Originally, I picked it because I could see all of “them” “doing it wrong” and suffering the consequences. Reality laughed at them because they reaped exactly what they sowed, and were shocked. “What do you expect?” laughed Reality.
The website name, in other words, came from a feeling that I had: smug superiority. I am very smart, etc. Clearly, that is false. I know very, very little. Every single person on the planet is smarter in some dimension than I am. Humility is in order.
Now, I am coming around to a different view. When you are properly aligned with reality, life is easy. When you are cross-wise with reality, life is hard.
Reality Laughs. It means something else now. When my mindset is right, Reality says “Hey, you get the joke! Life is pretty good, isn’t it?”
Reality laughs with me. Not at me. Reality is not laughing at “them”—the people I judged (and unfortunately I still judge them, so this is a work in progress for me). They just don’t yet understand cause and effect. They will continue stepping on the metaphorical rake until they do.
And when they realize that stepping on the metaphorical rake is part of the joke, they will laugh . . . and change.
Life is good. Reality laughs with me. We laugh together.