Everyday Canvas

What Goes Around...

Prompt: Do you believe in karma and what goes around comes around?

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I may say sometimes that what goes around comes around. Do I believe it? I sort of wish it were true. I think it is true only at times but not in all cases or for everything since I have witnessed people who have done really rotten things get away with those and lead perfectly happy lives. When such a person gets a bad illness or dies, people say he got what he deserved. But then, don’t we all die and aren’t we all liable to get terrible diseases?

Yet. there is something to the idea of karma. Just that dread of its existence can stop some people from doing any evil stuff. Then when something senseless happens in our lives, we search for reasons and answers at least inside our minds, and we wonder if in some unknowable way we had a hand in our own misery, even if we can’t recall what we did. Also, the idea of things happening at random doesn’t agree with my thinking, either. I do believe in some kind of an order in the universe.

Maybe as the Hindus insist, we’ve had other lives where we weren’t so up-to-par people and now is the payback time.

Still, I am not sure if karma exists; yet, I wouldn’t vouch for its non-existence, either. If there’s an order to the universe, which I believe there is, then some sort of action-reaction mechanism must be built into it. Whether it’s a tit-for-tat reaction or not is beyond my comprehension.