Karma is a Faithful Bitch…

Anyone who has read me blog in the past knows that I am a Catholic.  My Catholicism is important to me, defines who I am, at least in part.  I try to live be a good Catholic.  One of the main issues that people who have had faith issues is how can someone who has done evil all there life but suddenly forgiven their sins on their death bed and be admitted into Heaven.

I have never had issues with this with the forgiveness of those who have committed wrongs against others all their life.  This is due to my belief in the concept of karma.  Karma, at least the version I believe in, is the concept that you have a luck piggy bank which holds cosmic credits which are spent in an effort to have good things to happen to you.  If you do something negative, you take from the cosmic piggy bank.  If you do something positive, you add to the cosmic piggy bank.

There are times when we see people who have gotten where they have by stepping on others, taking credit for what others have done, or have put others down in order to lift themselves up.  We see these persons as lucky, we wonder how it is that they get everything they get with minimum work or effort.  We hate them for this.  Or perhaps you do.

Me, I believe in karma.  I know that ultimately the individual who has gotten where they have on the backs of others will face a down fall.  In my experience, the greater the rise, the greater the wrong caused to others, the longer and harder the fall.  Think about the Enron scandal.  Think about Barry Bonds.  What comes around goes around, as the saying goes.

I think about the poem “Richard Corey” written by Edward Arlington Robinson, which was later put to music by Simon and Garfunkel.  A rich man who had everything who killed himself. 

Accordingly, never think that those who take advantage of others will not get their due.  They do.  We may not see it, but they do.

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