One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence
This is somewhat of a personal story but I will share it for the purpose of explaining why I believe in karma.
Last year around September my father was getting tired of dealing with my kitten my ex boyfriend gave me. She meowed non-stop every morning around 5 am (without fail) until someone got out of bed. My father is a very ill-tempted man, and has been for as far back as I can remember. One morning around 6 am I heard him get up slamming the cat cage around trying to put the kitten inside. I jumped out of bed and tried to get the kitty in so he wouldn’t hurt her. While I was doing this my father yelled at me to hurry the **** up, and I don’t remember what I said back, but he snapped and was about to hit me. My mom asked him to calm down and he pushed her to the floor. She had broken her arm.
My mom stopped sleeping in bed with him and slept on the couch in the living room. My father slept in there a few nights with her and one day he couldn’t move his arm at all. He was in excruciating pain for a few days on the same arm and spot that my mom had hers broken. She took him to the doctor where they found out he had slept on it wrong. The muscle in his shoulder had frozen and needed shots to fix it.
This alone persuaded me to believe in karma. Now instead of getting angry when people do wrong, I will just know they have their dose coming sooner or later, in one form or another.
I definately believe in karma, from my own experiences too. It does really suck when you are nice and thoughtful and people are just not! It is frustrating when people do awful things and have no feelings of remorse, but you are right why get mad? They will have something coming to them that will twice as worse, and people will learn the hard way.
ReplyDeleteI definitely believe in Karma. I just believe that everything happens for a reason. The other day I borrowed my roommates brand new guitar to play for a little bit because his is nicer than mine, when I played mine the next day, one of my strings broke.
ReplyDeleteWow. I hope you and your mother know when to draw the line with this man. I am only speaking from experience.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely belive in karma. This belief has been made more than substantial by events in my life. It is why I haven't goten mad in situations where others might get irate (I mean when something happens to me that I know is karma for something I did in the past). I also hold onto it as a type of hope. I hope that others will see the error of their ways through it (which doesn't always happen). It's how I deal with my father. He refuses to see what he's done to his children, by disbursing the reponsibility. I hope he does some day.
I used to be a very angry person although I was always willing to help someone in need. Now that my life is in my control I try to trade the anger for other things. I say thank you to the shuttle drivers and crosswalk guards. I know their jobs suck and if I can maybe make just a bit of their day more pleasent it's worth it. I do it for them, but it is nice when that karma comes back to me.
Is it also called karma when the goodness (or badness) passes from one person to another, not necessarily in a circle? Like when I say thank you and it cheers someone up and they are nice to someone else because of it?
I definitely want to believe in karma. I want to believe that the jerk who cuts in front of me even though there isn't a car behind me for miles will suffer for their sin.
ReplyDeleteI WANT there to be karma.
Can you not just picture Wrangler in class saying his comment? :)
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