I keep hearing people comment on other peoples actions, with a "Oh Karma will get them". I think Karma is utterly ridiculous. It has absolutely no basis of fact tied to it yet people seem to think it has real ramifications on our lives.
We have all heard stories about how one person does something bad to another and later slams his hand in a car door or something equally painful. You will hear someone say "That's Karma"
The same thing could be said about someone who saves a bird from being killed and later on wins some money in the lottery. Is that Karma? I don't think so.
If Karma actually existed the world would fear and embrace it. It would be a known force and anybody that did anything bad would do so at their own peril. There would be Karma churches, and the Karma god.
I actually thought that Karma might be a real thing at one point of my life. When I was younger, I was not the best kind of person out there, I used to litter without a care in the world. Something changed in me at some point and I didn't want to litter anymore, I was sick of seeing the highways and towns looking so dirty. At that point in my life I still littered occasionally but I was trying hard to curb that habit and I wasn't doing it as much.
My truck needed a new windshield so I drove into town and got a new one. When it was finished I got myself some food and started to drive home. I finished my food and decided to have a smoke (cause I'm a smoker) I opened a new pack and rolled open the window to toss the garbage out but stopped myself at the last second and did not litter but put my garbage in the door and started to roll up the window and I thought I had just done a really good thing and Karma would reward me. At that exact moment a truck passed me and a huge rock spider-webbed my brand new windshield. I was pissed! I rolled down my window, tossed out my cigarette garbage and my food bag with everything in it, then I looked around to see if I had any more garbage to toss out.
I am currently a non littering person and don't do it anymore I actually pick up garbage now if I see someone has missed the garbage can. I also do not believe in Karma either.
Here is the real problem with Karma, who's side does it take? There is more than one version of right and wrong in this world. Hitler and all his followers thought they were doing the right thing. The Monguls, that invaded half the world thought they were doing the right thing. You might see a baby fox on the side of the road and decide to take it home, thinking you are doing the right thing but it dies later because it doesn't have its mother. Our version of what's right and wrong greatly differs from other people's version and other countries.
It's nice to think that bad people are going to get what's coming to them, but that is sadly just not the case, bad things happen to good people all the time, why is there no magical force that is given a name for that?
Shit happens, that is the magical name. Sometimes shitty things just happen, there is no Karma or divine force at work here, you might get a flat tire, win 2 dollars on a scratch and win, get hit by another driver, step on a nail, bust a tooth, find that thing you been looking for forever, get a complement from a stranger. Good shit and bad shit just happens. You'll see a really good person get a heart attack and die, while another miserable person who smokes ten packs a day live till they are one hundred and ten. A murderer gets a mistrial, an innocent man gets life and every once and a while someone will give you the finger while driving and drive themselves into a light pole.
What do you think? Is it....
Karma or Shit Happens
Scott Goerz
