It seems like irony is apart of my every day life. Like Moses throwing up at 4 am in the morning on the 1 out of 8 days I work so I don’t get enough sleep.

t’s like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
Who would’ve thought… it figures.

Those words are from a famous  Alanis Morissette song. (You can check out the rest of the lyrics here http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alanismorissette/ironic.html ). Its a good song. But I think it misses the mark slightly or only tells the first 1/2 of the story.

I was thinking about irony though, and how prevalent it is. Maybe things aren’t ironic after all. Maybe its just how things really are. Bad, inconvenient things really happen in life. Maybe irony is our way of explaining it away to ignore the incongruence of how life really is and how we know deep down inside it should be. I think irony is really our adaptive mechanism to reconcile the difference between this fallen world and the the perfect world that our souls some how know we were destined to live in. It allows us to believe that in general good things happen to people and the bad or inconvenient things are a fluke or ironic on this earth. In a way it speaks to the eternal calling of our souls to be with God and perfection. Interesting.