Good times, bad times

Good times, bad times; retribution, karma and consequence, 'form and class' are all ways of thinking that we have developed around the random assortment in which events occur in our realm.

Because our powers of statistical prediction of a p,0.05 or intuition ( 'gut feeling','work experience')do not serve us well all the time
and because
there is some regularity in irregularity( or so the brain is trained to think- we always look for patterns unconsciously, link up events- thats the way we are trained to remember, to assign significance to mundane everyday events. A someanyone is a somesignificantone of someknownONE; a random thing sticks in memory because of the nebula around it that we probed to link up with some other thing we know of)
we develop this sometimes absurd linking of events.
That a present was a consequence of an earlier.
Things do not turn out always as we expect, unexpected events factor in, performance varies - we did good or we did not do so good. This creates uncertainty that gives you the sweaty palms and queasy belly- autonomic responses that we are instinctively uncomfortable with.Uncertainity is also an uncomfortable emotion for the psyche.And because we attach a sense of morality or even fear to many things we do-thats the origin of the punitively conscientious 'kar bhala so ho bhala' or 'as you sow..'These are good comforters.Then we change thinking patterns to we did good or we did BAD.Punitive conscience becomes a nonpunitive ego-ideal.

Another form of linking of events that we do subconsciously but have prided as creation of human ingenuity/intelligence is the 'law of averages'That you have good times and bad times. This is contradictory with the above point in that if one keeps doing good then there should be no bad times at all.Kar bhala .....ho bhala should go in a positive feedback loop.But events do occur in a way that they are at times good for us and sometimes not so good for us.What sustains through is how one handles the events and what adaptive lessons one learns from them.Why someone has a longer cycle of good times and bad times while others seem to hop, skip and jump out of them is not a question of morality but stochastic probability.If we think so( it is tough to go against what is drilled into the id though) then it creates preparedness for events- not a false sense of security or hopelessness.