Nicholas is gentlemanly Naomi is ambitious and classy. Everyone envies their perfect, adorable, Instagram-ready lifestyle. Store clerk Naomi Westfield and doctor Nicholas Rose have a perfect relationship. Presumably, those who accept this kind of delusional or self-deluding nonsense at face value are also those who are most likely to believe in astrology / tarot / fortune-telling / lucky numbers / crystal divination / supernatural deities / any of the other manifestations of superstitious belief or New Age mumbo-jumbo.Want a big, heavy dose of Characters Behaving Badly? Sarah Hogel serves it on up in You Deserve Each Other, a highly flawed story about two highly flawed people who figure out that they’re better together when they act like normal human beings. Some of this contemptible claptrap takes the form of free-floating all-purpose fatalistic platitudes, while most of the rest is usually heard after someone dies, or following a greater or lesser misfortune of some other kind.
Unfortunately, the emergence and evolution of the Web has rendered these excrescences of half-baked thinking immortal (or at least incapable of extinction), especially in the United States, where cultural backwardness and scientific and factual ignorance are widespread in the population (this site being one of the honourable exceptions). In fact, there is in perpetual circulation on the internet a bunch of trite and irritating bromides that bespeak a slavish and idiotic mindset. To my mind, it's of a piece with that other vacuous trope of wishful thinking, "Everything happens for a reason". To change the subject slightly, I'm with user76468 in deprecating the notion of karma as a sort of cosmic reward or punishment for past actions. There also exists the old proverb, "Lie down with the dogs and you will rise with fleas". One sometimes hears the impersonal saying, "Actions have consequences" - an accurate but rather unenlightening observation.
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