Karma is in essence about Effort Hardwork hence Shani dev is attached to the entire issue
it is not flowery or sweet it takes toil , people who keep talking about the world being bad including me myself can never enjoy our dreams because we want to have what does not exist or we do not want to put in effort and have not earned it
the only other thing one can do then is to quietly put up with it all
secretly whining at times being a bigot at other times giving up faith and being an opportunist

Love is trust respect affection
Knowledge is to understand the Truth accept Reality
Freedom is to do your Karma for Right for God for Bhagwaan
and avoid being enslaved by negative ideas feelings lies within and outside

The idea is the universe and all that is gives each soul a path a Highway which they are to share with other similar one's like cars on a wide road there are many lanes many Bends many under and over bridges 
every soul has a fixed path to the destination lanes are the degree of choices god has granted and you may switch as per your intent the influence of the three gunas and by triggering or being triggered by the fellow souls who share some distance with you while they get off the detour which you did not take,the only choice granted is to give way or try to overtake other souls as it benefits you within your mind and feelings to go sideways on either direction while continuing to go forward 
perhaps those damning decisions or those painful but great choices people make are going beyond switching lanes and rather taking new turns and new bridges it takes more effort but it is worth the hassle
or atleast you think it is an end up crashing

Karma is the only Merit no one is better by Default