| a refreshed, yet repeated topic: KARMA
karma was made by the eastern cultures as a way of setting the world in a balanced state. everyone has heard of the saying, what goes around comes around. so truthfully, there can never be too much of one thing, there's not too much good, and yet, there's not too much evil. that's one perspective of karma, the other way is sort of revenge in a natural way. if someone has done wrong to you, unnaturally, meaning that it was meant to be played bad on your part, karma will naturally balance the score.
the eastern cultures were right about karma, the scale between good and evil cannot weigh in uneven proportions. if there is too much of a good thing, it is practically inevitable for something bad to happen. not to look like a pessimist, but whose really had a lucky streak going their whole life? some more than others, but the balance of the natural world will evetually come as they may. the people who created this theory must have believed that if you have too much of a good thing, then you won't appreciate the things you have and take it for granted. once you feel pain and despair, the life before seems as if it was on some kind of pedestal. i, myself believe that the world itself is not balanced. there's too much misery out there and too much money going to a small amount of people. i've learned that the society cannot function without the people on the bottom, those who are way less fortunate than us. but really, if we level the social and financial statuses, not everyone may be on the high-mid class position, but karma would be another word for utopia. saying that, i should be held a hypocrite, because i have so much material possesions that i'm probably putting down 3 families in a third world country. and seriously, it feels good to buy things for yourself, but it kills when you read the label and it says "made in Bangledesh". but in reality, i buy materials because i feel like i'm always in competition with someone else who got something better than what i've got. karma in the world term, is not doing its job. its probably shopping, just like the rest of us who live in th suburbian life-style. and don't say that you have nothing cause you live in the ghetto. you have no idea how the real ghetto is until you've lived a day where you go days without eating a thing. where you have a job for hours on end just to gain enough money for a piece of string here in north america. the true ghetto is where you have to be home by 5 pm because the drunks, killers and rapists go early for their spree. where when you were a kid, your version of fun was not the xbox, but to play with rocks and create a game of your own. but i think karma has done its job, or will do its job, spirituality. for the poor in spirit will inherit the kingdom of God. now who would really appreciate it other than those who have barely or not experienced the goodness of life.
karma on the other hand can play in an individual level. this is where the cynical aspects come into play. what goes around, comes around. the light of it all, if you've been in the suck factor lately, everything will eventually balance itself out. may not be the the exact time that you want it, but that's the beauty of it. it comes unexpectedly. but if your on the other side of this spectrum, then consider yourself on guard. regardless of everything that happens, no one can have too much of one thing the whole time, may it be now or later. so wait. the best or worse is yet to come.
karma, you either love it or hate it. i welcome it. |
