The Best Flavor of Irony: Reverse

I like the ultimate irony in the Greek myth of King Midas and the Golden touch. A man so greedy that he wanted everything he touched to be made to gold. He later turned his own precious daughter into gold, which later became worthless. Sad huh? But then, more ironic than all that was worth to him was made worthless because of his own actions to obtain something that was worth so much, was that when he cried out to the gods for a second chance at his old life... they forgave King Midas, and gave him back everything the way it was before.

So, you're asking "Oh, how is that irony?" Well, it's reverse irony, if you super-language-term guys can come up with something better than reverse-irony to describe what I'm saying here, please let me know.

Anyway, imagine that you're somebody who has given up everything that was worth anything to you just to obtain something that you thought was everything to you, but in the end, was worth less than what you had before. Irony, right?
Now, let's say that you're somebody who has forsaken God, and stepped on others to climb that ladder of success all by yourself, only to find that that ladder leads to no place you want to be. You're crushed. Now, when God takes you up, and forgives you for betraying Him, he has made all that you thought was worth something back then, worth nothing in His light. Now, when all that work is worth nothing, and the hero you had pictured yourself to be was actually the villain, and the victim to yourself... is that not irony? But a good kind, because you're now a new person, and God's the hero, and His yoke is light. All you thought you had done wrong for something you thought was worth everything is now worth nothing. Can you follow that? I hope so. I do my best. Anyway, if you made it to the end of this post without being totally lost, congratulations! Maybe I'll use some of my parent's money to treat you to lunch someday.