Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this is exactly karma, but I believe that it was something spiritual.

When I was young, single, and very poor, I had a friend who needed a medical procedure with a $50 copay. She was very upset that she had no significant other or close family member to take care of her, and this seemed to exacerbate her general loneliness. I took her to and from the procedure and paid her copay that I really couldn't afford, but I wanted her to feel cared for. $50 was a lot to me at that time.

Later that day, I found $50 on the sidewalk.

This is the best story on this thread.

I don't know if this is exactly karma, but I believe that it was something spiritual.

When I was young, single, and very poor, I had a friend who needed a medical procedure with a $50 copay. She was very upset that she had no significant other or close family member to take care of her, and this seemed to exacerbate her general loneliness. I took her to and from the procedure and paid her copay that I really couldn't afford, but I wanted her to feel cared for. $50 was a lot to me at that time.

Later that day, I found $50 on the sidewalk.

Karma is a funny thing. I do not think there is any magic about it...but more, if you are an asshole, at some point the people around you will realize you are an asshole. Or something will happen and no one will have your back.

If you are a good person, people will have your back.

At work, the people who are the Machiavellian social climbers might have gotten ahead of me in my 30's, but then they fell back.

In home life, the people that cut you off or drive down the shoulder will eventually do it in front of a cop.

And the racist twit will have their rant captured and posted to social media, costing them their lives.

Anonymous wrote:My cheating ex was trapped alive and conscious in a crashed car for 3 hours before she could be retrieved. She died the next day.

Carma.

Karma doesn't exist. I got diagnosed with colitis this year, single, no friends. I have always worked hard on being a kind and thoughtful person and am known as this.
The most selfish and nastiest people I know seem the happiest and most successful in all areas of their lives and seem to have the best lives. I have never once seem karma hit and so I feel it doesn't exist and it's just a way of making us feel better knowing people will get their comeuppance. Truth is, a lot of them don't. Uncomfortable but true.

There is always a reckoning. Always.

I don't need revenge. Mostly I just want the people who harm me to not be able to harm me again. I also just want to be free of them. I'd settle for that. They don't have to be miserable. They don't have to be punished. I just want them to not be able to harm me (or anyone else, for that matter) again.

Sadly, I feel like the people who have harmed me the most seem to get rewarded for it and are allowed to continue on harming me and others. It makes me sick in the stomach.

“For example, I stay away from gossiping for this reason. Some people can't help themselves, they are bad seeds.”


There is a wisdom in this. There are people who will sprout and attempt to water fruit you never intended to plant with your word. But your seeds mixed with their deeds and made come crazy confusion hybrid of misfortune that you are then responsible for uprooting and dismantling.

Of course, if a person isn’t building and working to preserve a good harvest in their lives, disruptions like this don’t always carry the same devastation to those that are.

The whole reaping what you sow point a PP made earlier; you can’t plant something unhealthy, and expect something healthy to go. Gossip and gloating aren’t really rooted in kindness.

I’ve been guilty of tolerating gossip, I’ve been victim of gossip, and I’ve also seen its recourse: it isn’t a good investment to make in your life or another’s.

It takes wisdom to practice transparency and discretion that will protect the greater good from potential harm.

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Anonymous wrote:I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease last year, and now after reading this thread I'm wondering what I did to deserve it?

You did nothing to deserve it. This entire thread is a little disgusting. When I'm with my Hospice patients and their families, one of the things we talk about is how life can seem so random. And it often feels completely unfair. I would love to invite some of these posters to spend the day with me. I'm spending the afternoon/evening with a six month old patient in our pediatric wing. She will probably die this afternoon. Her parents didn't deserve any of this. She didn't deserve any of it. As a chaplain and more importantly, as a human being, I urge some of you to really think about the pain you seem to delight in.

NP here, I get what you are saying, but offer a different perspective. For some of us it is not so much delighting in the pain of another, but noticing similarities in pattern with poor treatment. I can't help but notice that you peed on me and now someone is peeing on you. It is simple observation at play.

Nope. Some people not only delight in the pain of others, they go out of their way to cause it. So, yeah.

I'm OP - I actually posted this thread with a person in mind who does just that. Wondering if she's likely to 'get hers' or if life just doesn't work that way..

Malicious people - especially if they go on about what "good people" they are (overcompensating - they are obviously not) always get theirs. What a lot of PPs are saying is that it is bad form to gloat or wish it - because the universe has its own way.......and it does.......

For example, I stay away from gossiping for this reason. Some people can't help themselves, they are bad seeds.

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Anonymous wrote:I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease last year, and now after reading this thread I'm wondering what I did to deserve it?

You did nothing to deserve it. This entire thread is a little disgusting. When I'm with my Hospice patients and their families, one of the things we talk about is how life can seem so random. And it often feels completely unfair. I would love to invite some of these posters to spend the day with me. I'm spending the afternoon/evening with a six month old patient in our pediatric wing. She will probably die this afternoon. Her parents didn't deserve any of this. She didn't deserve any of it. As a chaplain and more importantly, as a human being, I urge some of you to really think about the pain you seem to delight in.

Oh COME ON. That has nothing to do with this thread, and you know it (I hope....???)

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Anonymous wrote:I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease last year, and now after reading this thread I'm wondering what I did to deserve it?

You did nothing to deserve it. This entire thread is a little disgusting. When I'm with my Hospice patients and their families, one of the things we talk about is how life can seem so random. And it often feels completely unfair. I would love to invite some of these posters to spend the day with me. I'm spending the afternoon/evening with a six month old patient in our pediatric wing. She will probably die this afternoon. Her parents didn't deserve any of this. She didn't deserve any of it. As a chaplain and more importantly, as a human being, I urge some of you to really think about the pain you seem to delight in.

NP here, I get what you are saying, but offer a different perspective. For some of us it is not so much delighting in the pain of another, but noticing similarities in pattern with poor treatment. I can't help but notice that you peed on me and now someone is peeing on you. It is simple observation at play.

Nope. Some people not only delight in the pain of others, they go out of their way to cause it. So, yeah.

I'm OP - I actually posted this thread with a person in mind who does just that. Wondering if she's likely to 'get hers' or if life just doesn't work that way..

I'm the OP. This thread is meant to be lighthearted and I appreciate those of you enjoying it as such. I'm not working anyone health issues or anything like that.

I'm talking more about the person whose cruelty caught up to them (the classic 'kid you bullied became the admissions officer at your kid's dream college' or 'guy your bitchy friend made fun of for being too poor just bought our her company' sort of stuff.

Anonymous wrote:I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

There's a difference between karma and revenge. This thread includes and asks for revenge stories, and there's quite a few of them here.

Addressing the karma side of this thread, I think it's important to point out that nobody is saying that misfortune in life is the result of a karma event. Life is full of tragedy, and nobody is spared, although some people are luckier than others and don't see as much tragedy. But when someone comes along, and maliciously adds to the pain in someone's life, I think it unleashes a karmic response in the universe. For example, the hospice minister mentioned a tiny baby in the process of dying. That is terrible, and I don't think anyone who is a decent person would feel anything but sympathy and compassion for the baby and the parents. But what if someone came along and took advantage of the baby's illness and the parent's grief, without any concern for what their actions are doing to the stricken family? Say, a charlatan who offers a cure in exchange for the family's net worth. The charlatan is unleashing a karmic event that will come back to them eventually.

I think the chaplain poster and some others are the truly kind ones that understand not just karma but life in general. Hold each other in the light, our time here is short

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Anonymous wrote:I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease last year, and now after reading this thread I'm wondering what I did to deserve it?

You did nothing to deserve it. This entire thread is a little disgusting. When I'm with my Hospice patients and their families, one of the things we talk about is how life can seem so random. And it often feels completely unfair. I would love to invite some of these posters to spend the day with me. I'm spending the afternoon/evening with a six month old patient in our pediatric wing. She will probably die this afternoon. Her parents didn't deserve any of this. She didn't deserve any of it. As a chaplain and more importantly, as a human being, I urge some of you to really think about the pain you seem to delight in.

NP here, I get what you are saying, but offer a different perspective. For some of us it is not so much delighting in the pain of another, but noticing similarities in pattern with poor treatment. I can't help but notice that you peed on me and now someone is peeing on you. It is simple observation at play.

Nope. Some people not only delight in the pain of others, they go out of their way to cause it. So, yeah.