'Karma' (20)

Last year, before my father, died I made a decision.

The decision was to pre-empt any demand for a wage rise for employees.

This was before the recession hit home.

I wrote to all my employees informing them that they were going to get not one but three pay rises - one in October 2008, one in January 2009 and one in June 2009.

Then the recession hit home late last year/early this year.

I was upset. I had promised three pay-rises of which I had honoured my word on one, but income was falling, inflation was still rising and what was I to do?

I could make some economies, but why should I economise when others are gaining at my expense?

I decided to increase my income from that DIRECT desire to keep my word; so far I have succeeded; I sincerely hope my karma is good as the 1st June looms nearer and nearer!

There is a saying that 'Needs must' and when our backs are up against the wall we have the choice to either fight back or give up and die.

I choose to fight.

Any comments?

Have you ever had 'good' or 'bad' karma?

I am a complete cynic. There is no such thing as Karma.

When anyone mentions karma or says 'what goes around comes around' or anything like that, instantly an image comes to me. It is an image of children, dressed in rags, shoeless, filthy, climbing all over a garbage dump pilfering something to sell so they can buy a little food to take home to some one room shack their whole family lives in, a shack probably without electricity, or at least safe electricity, and definitely without running water. The street in front of the shack is a running sewer. They don't go to school, at least not regularly and not wearing nice clean, warm clothes, and they don't have a hot lunch, probably not any or much lunch at all. With certain variables, this image can be taking place in South America, Indonesia, India, etc. Just recently I was on a subway in one of our beautiful European capitals. A young Turkish boy was begging. His teenage brother was playing a guitar. These people come here for a better life and they are different, they come from the lowest scio-economic levels of Turkey: they are generally uneducated and religiously unsophisticated. And in Europe, they are generally scorned. I lived in Turkey and know how very poor some of the people are and how they suffer, and why they come to Europe. So, I wonder, why do all these people have such bad karma? What I done to have such good karma that I live a comfortable, healthy, prosperous Western life? Wha kind of karma does an abused baby have and how did he/she get such karma? A victim of a p*dophile? What kind of karma does that kid have? What have they done to deserve this 'what goes around comes around' scenario? Is it that they are paying for bad things they did in another lifetime? How ridiculous.

I did. I shall. I got thin! Now I want to put on weight!

You answered your own question by getting definitions.... what you then said went contradictory to what you found - read your definitions again!

How do you get contrary. It matches up exactly with what I am saying.

The definition says that karma is brought upon onself by the actions of oneself in this or a previous incarnation. There is no other way to read it. There is one definition that says fate or destiny. Which, if that is the one you are using, doesn't apply to the points you have made about it.