Karma

Why is it that the minute you think to yourself, not even say out loud, that thank goodness I haven't got my annual and reoccurring cold sore come spring time, you feel a tingling sensation on your upper lip? Or when you've silently thought to yourself that when I have a baby, he/she will have my eyes, daddy's nose and lips and a perfectly formed shapely head (unlike so and so's child...) it's the total opposite? When you mock or ridicule other's and their children especially it makes sense for the mystical forces of karma to say 'aha! i know how to get you back!'
I almost make a deal with myself every time I hear the oncoming of a karma teasing thought about the misfortunes of another-that I will not say 'it'll never happen to me' or 'I will do so and so..' because it's tempting it, daring it to show you otherwise. Instead I will make a milder form of thought and opinion and soften the tone to something like 'I hope that I'll not end up like my mum' (because we all know that there's always a high probability of that happening). It's all a bit like that joke: 'How do you make God laugh? By telling him your plans.' By announcing certain things so boldly, you're more or less prophesying your own doom.
However, boldly making statements in the opposite meaning in the hope of getting what you really want doesn't seem to work either. For example: 'I'm sure I'll get enormously fat after giving birth.' Because it actually happens.
Maybe it's a cosmic way of bringing you back down to earth, for being too cocky and all. But shouldn't we have a choice in all this? A choice to opt out of the karma service because it doesn't fit with someone's lifestyle? We can have access to the service on a pay was you go scheme from time to time, or for the really karma-phobics, how about a Karma Shield 24/7. It'll never find you. Like going off the karma radar. We're living in a supposed democratic and capitalist society surely there's a way to fix this. but then again, are we really? Maybe Karma's just stepping in when there's trouble on earth, to sort out the (bank) balances. Yes, I'm loosely and poorly referring to the EU and recession crises.
I bet this man can't fix it all alone.