Life is pain.

       Have you ever noticed how everyone seems to believe in Karma when something bad happens to someone who deserves it.  The jerk who set you up to be fired, gets fired themselves; that's karma right.  When it happens to you it's never karma.  Then it's bad luck, misfortune, or some jerk.
       Good things are never karma.  Good things are blessings.  Healthy baby: blessing.  Promotion: blessing.  Benediction: OK that one is technically a blessing.  You get the idea though.  We apply a different religion's vocabulary to bad things.  (Unless the reader is a practitioner of eastern religion, but I'm guessing that isn't too many of you)
       I will not condemn this haphazard practice, but I am curious why good things are not ever seen as deserved, but bad ones are.  We seem to want to deny ourselves joy for its own sake.  Misfortune is something we endure, others deserve, and we all suffer.  Good things are something that are obviously a gift, a blessing, if you will.  I do not think this is a Judeo-Christian thing either, I think it is part of the human condition.
       We perceive so much of what happens as bad that we question why it stopped.  The sudden appearance of a wounded mammoth was likely viewed as an undeserved blessing by our primitive forebears.  "What have we done that suddenly, life sucks so much less?"
       I say challenge that.  Accept the good things as just that: good things.  Further, don't be so quick to assume that the bad thing happening to a person you feel deserves it is karma.  It may just be life being life.  After all Westley (as the man in black/Dread Pirate Roberts) had it right:
       " Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."