Bad you sow, only that shall you reap!

People who say that they believe in "as you sow, so shall you reap"; I kinda doubt them. I don't think you can actually believe that. I'm not saying I think its not true. I don't know if this karma stuff is true or not. I'm just saying that I'm not sure if you can actually believe it. I have seen by experience that when people are really sad, because they din't get something they wanted or because things din't happen the way they wanted them to and instead, someone else got it possibly by means that may seem wrong to you then, you tend to say, "He will get back for what he has done" or things like "He cheated someone, and someday someone will cheat him".

If you observe closely, this is quite interesting actually. Someone gave me an example saying that... "Lets say for example there is a couple who ignores their kids, doesn't care about them, blah blah... Do you think their kids will care for them ?" I said probably not. And my friend says. "That's exactly what I'm talking about". I said sure. But, I have also seen people who treat their kids really well, teach them all the good stuff, do eveyrthing almost right but, their kids turn out bad, and eventually leave the parents in a much worse state than in the above case. My friend says "Parik, karma does come back. The guy who treated his nice parents badly, won't be happy either, his kids will also trouble him".

See, now that is not good. It is probably fair on the bad guy who troubled his nice parents that his kids are bad to him. However, what about the nice parents ? They din't get back the good they did.

What I think may be happening is that only the bad things you sow, you get back. But the good things that you sow, don't really come back. Atleast not always. Do they really come back ? May be they do but are ignored ? May be there is no such thing as karma, at all ? May be you just gotta be smart enough to be able to get your way through ? Or, may be, like some folks say, you will reap benifits or suffer punishments in your next life. Ok, now that triggers off an all-together different discussion. So I'm gonna end this article on if karma actually gives you back everything ? And hey, what if you land up doing something wrong, without meaning to ? You would like to believe that nothing will happen to you if you don't mean to hurt anyone, and if your intentions are good and blah blah..

But, does karma know that ? Do things really happen like that ? If by mistake, you hit someone real hard, without meaning to, and the person punches you back in the face and walks off, would you think that it is karma ? Nope. Why ? Because you din't mean to, but it did happen, din't it ? You reaped the bad you sowed, without wanting to or not. May be karma works only for abstract things ? Like lets say, if someone is in trouble and I put in a few good words to make the person more comfortable, and some other time in life, God forbid, I am in trouble, then this person puts in a few good words back to make me feel better. Ah, there may be a chance that the person isn't able to show up when i need him/her. He/she may have genuine issues and may not be around. And may be the person is nice and is thinking that, Aww Parik.. I hope he is fine soon. But then all that is abstract. What controls actual practical karma related things ?

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