Sometimes bad things happen to good people.

I don't believe in karma. I believe it's how you choose to do things that determines how things turn out for you. There is some stuff that you can't have any control about, but most of the time it is how you make decisions.

Try to learn from your mistakes and don't make the same ones again.

I don't know what you may be paying for. Life is not easy. I am a soul believer of karma.

I believe in Karma to a point, but sometimes I think we get stuck in other peoples lessons, lessons that we also learn from...

I don't believe in Karma. I believe in striving to be the best that you are. Doing the best that you can. Live as healthy as you can. Treat others as you would want to be treated. The rest comes to you. It's a task but, it can be done. Negativity breeds negativity and so on.

I have been angry for most of this year. Lately, I have been allowing myself to uncurl. My body reacted as I tried to do this. The mind is a powerful thing. I actually got muscle cramps. I realized that the ball is always in my court. I just need to return the serve.

Bad things happened to me and I have done bad things onto others. I never got punished for my deeds but, I decided to grow the fuck up and take charge of my future endeavors.

I'm not as angry. I'm not as tired. I'm not as bitter. I'm not as sad. It just starts from me and noone else. I also took stock in my role. I saw my light. I will work on me.

Good post. Karma.. i think i believe in it but i'm not sure. The old saying 'what goes around comes around' just seems (to me) like the saying of a scorned person clinging to the hope that maybe, just maybe, the person who hurt them will get their dues some time in the future, and it reassures them in their hour of hurt... i am not sure if it's actually set in stone, i'm not sure that when somebody does something bad, a note goes up on the karma wall saying 'we owe him/her one'. I just don't know. One thing ive noticed is that some people fly through life doing some bad things to a lot of people, and always seem to come out smelling of roses, and on the inverse side, some genuinely good souls end up going through so much misery it's just not fucking funny! Either way, on a purely statistical basis, the more you live a 'good life', hopefully the more settled and 'good' your own existence may be, and if you choose to be a criminal/heartbreaker/generally nasty peice of work, you may alienate people and end up having bad things done against you? Is that Karma? Illnesses and Karma weird me out. If someone cheated on their partner for what ever reason, and got cancer later in life, is that Karma? some people will use Karma as an excuse, as a justification of thye onset of their illness, people always need to know 'what things mean'... 'why are these things happeneing to me' and Karma fits the bill as a possibility which cannot be tested, therefore, like religion, cannot be proved and is just an 'opinion' of sorts, like 'deja vu', like 'coincidence or fate', who knows!! (as you can see, not i). Anyway, bottom line, there could be something in it, if it makes you feel reassured, use karma, if not, it's your own thoughts that count and where you are in yourelf. Thanks for allowing me to rant. best of luck to you. V69

I'm not sure about karma, but I do believe in the Golden Rule - I try to pass around good things and something they come back to me later. Karma or just people helping each other?

Lynne

I do belive in karma seems to me that if you are honest and kind with others it is reciprocated and thus creates a circle and besides there needs to be more good people in this world than bad more thinking before we open our mouths and more listening too the words of others understanding is a big part of this what goes around does come around if every sigle one of us lived by this philosophy then indeed this world of ours would be a great place I can only be what I am!

who gets to decide the rules? that's the problem. most people are fear motivated and that makes them overly self centered and willing to break any rule to get their way.

life is not a quantifyable thing. it just is. you are winning at life already. we all are. only losers keep score.

score keeping is only to hone our skills. it is merely a secondary tool.

I have had my share of pain most of my life ( as has everyone I know).
I look at earth as school. We are here to learn valuable lessons ( often very painful).
Through all my pain and suffering, I stay positive and look at what I have learned. Without those painful lessons I would not be the person I am today. Am I perfect? No. Have I gone out of my way to hurt others? No. Have I hurt others? Not intentionally....ever!!!
Do I believe in Karma? hhhhhhmmmmm.....not really sure. I do believe you reap what you sow. There are consequences for every action as well as a lesson to be learned. I've made some really bad choices and had to live with the consequences. When I started making better choices, the consequences were and are well worth making a few bad decisions and I learned to be greatful good or bad.
I think it is more about the choices we make in our life!

do your best........that's really the only thing you can control.

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And that's how Karma works.





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you reap what you sow

Karma? Isn't that supposed to mean that you're paying for wrong doing from a past life in this one? And will pay for, or get rewarded in your next life for what you do in this one?

I don't think it ever met that you'd get your rewards or trials in the same life.

As for me....I don't really believe. I quit thinking about it. Honestly, many years ago I was starting to get bitter thinking about how I'd done things to help certain people, but it never got repaid.

Since the divorce, I've HAD to put myself first to get through school. And in doing so, I've let some of those toxic relationships fall at the wayside. Oh I'll still help, when and if it fits into my life, but I don't knock myself out over it anymore. It's made life much more peaceful in some ways. And I just no longer see sticking it out and helping people who should really be helping themselves as 'doing good' anymore.

In short, I've stopped enabling. And I've come to see some of the things I did in the past as less good.

But hey, life and learn. I do my best, and that's good enough for me to sleep well at night.....

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer

My day isn't made better by anyone else having a bad one.