My mother-in-law always said, "Things will happen if they were meant to" and I always HATED that. There was no real effort on her part to do much of anything; she would just kind of wait for things to fall into her lap and if they didn't, it was just the will of the universe I guess. It felt lazy, like you shouldn't put yourself out there for anything and if it isn't easy, it isn't worth doing.

I admit it took me a couple paragraphs to realize this post was a joke, because it legitimately sounded like something she would write! Very scary (and somewhat tragic) that some people actually think this way.