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The universe is not a person so talking about life's unfairness and life's injustice makes no sense. Nobody is persecuting you since there is nobody out-there. If you have found that all your hopes and dreams ("great expectations") have just fallen apart since you have got cancer at 20, and you will be dead in say 2 years time, then it is just something which has happened/happens. As when "it rains". Neither you nor the universe is at fault. It is just bad luck, misfortune, bad circumstances.

But if instead you do believe that the universe is a sort of sentient being with whom you are in a sort of human-like, interpersonal relationship, or that the universe is ruled by a person, by God, and therefore that your misfortunes are due to a deliberate, intended, act of God (as Job did believe) then your rage and victimization are justified. Morally justified. Practically they are useless since they are directed against the almighty God. You can not sue him or use your force to coax him to change course, make amends and redress the wrongs which he has done to you.

Conversely, you may believe yourself as being a sort of God who could anticipate and prevent everything. That happenes to some people as well. They think themselves as responsible. They think that they are at fault somehow, that they could have prevented it had they been more thoughtful and careful, or that must have done something wrong to "deserve it". Instead of blaming God, they feel guilt and blame themselves for having got cancer.

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