Instant Karma: Add hot water and Stir

You all have heard of Karma.” Karma literally means “deed” or “act” and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction that governs all life. Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will creating his own destiny. According to the Vedas, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future. The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action and dispassionate response. At the least, you have heard of “what goes around comes around”. Well maybe you have caught Earl on NBC.A recent blog brought back my memory of my first few weeks back in my hometown.

Funny story~ being spit on. I move back home, having been living on the west coast, been in my Central Valley hometown for about 4 weeks or so. I am walking to downtown when two gentlemen, in a pea green gas-guzzler, pull over ask if I would like a ride. I politely say no thank you and keep walking. They circle back and say “come on, get in” and I decide my best option is to ignore them, surly they will stop ~I ain’t that good looking. Sure ‘nuff there they are thinking the third time is the charm. They kept circling as if I was a tuna and they were the sharks. They pull over, open the door and before they get a word out, I say “No way!!! But the High School is that way, go find someone your own age! “Okay I was rude, but then they suggested I’d never marry, like an idiot I said, “If you two are my choices, get me to the nunnery.” Time slows down; it feels like you are watching a movie, not your real life. Spittle flies straight into my eyes, drips down all over my face, they speed off in a puff of smog. Now just do not make me mad, I can take a lot but…. I note the license plate number with a coldness I hope to never feel again.

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