Deus ex machina

Some people are looking for it. That easy way out. The single solution to all their problems. The deus ex machina.

Surprisingly enough, it often comes.

But of course, when it comes, it's not in the form people want or expect, so they reject it. Maybe they wanted a certain guy/gal to love them; someone different does. Maybe they wanted a new job; they get fired. Maybe they needed a lot of cash; Aunt Helen dies.

Easy answers, single solutions, deux ex machinas -- can you pluralize that? -- they aren't meant to be dictated. They just come as they are. And you can take them or leave them, but you can't say they don't exist.

Unless you're in fiction. Then they're a bad idea.