Karma in life
Just an entry about some stuff that I've been thinking about more and more lately...read if your bored. ^_^
^_^ You know I never really believed in Karma...I thought it basically was invented to try and get people to be nice to other people in hopes of getting something out of it. XD I always thought that was pretty stupid. BE NICE FOR NICENESS'S SAKE is my motto. <3 But then again i'm a strange girl who actually enjoys helping people, strangers even. But a month or so ago I started toying around with teh idea of Karma actually existing when I had something go extremely well for me after I helped out a women with her two children on the bus.
She was an immigrant and ddin't really speak or understand english so she couldn't really understand that the bus fair had been raised and she was short $2. The bus driver was being ANAL as all hell which was pretty rude I think...but one of her kids, who was maybe 8 or 9, sat down next to me so I handed him the $2 and motioned for him to give it to his mother. ^_^ She thanked me with a nod and smile and paided to pissy bus driver(I may have been imagining it but he seemed down right annoyed that he didn't get to kick the woman and her kids to the curb). Later that day I hung out with my Communication teacher after class WAY later than I should have which should have gotten me in HUGE trouble with my boyfriend, but thankfully he was asleep WAY early(never happens).
Two days ago I helped a blind kid cross the street after he got off the bus to make sure he didn't get run over. I walked him to his class then stayed to talk with him for at least another 20 minutes before I left. He was a nice kid so I really didn't mind. Later on I went home WAAAAY late thanks to an ungodly amount of errands so I was tired as all heck and then amazingly for once my boyfriend didn't try to keep me up with him. He let me take a 2 hour nap so I was feeling pretty good when I had to go to work that night.
And then yesterday I was walking to the laundry mat and I didn't have a hand at all, I made eye contact with a woman inside the laundry mat. I figured she would be like everyone else and just ignore me so I was shuffling around stuff so I could get to my keys but when I looked up her 6 or 7 year old sun was holding the door open for me with a smile. I was surprised and thanked them. The whole time I was doing laundry the woman and her child would smile very friendly, I just knew I had to do something. I forced karma making my own. As I was leaving I called the kid over and handed him 50 cents, not much but when you are doing laundry extra quarters are always awesome. I expected the kid to keep them or go buy a drink from the vending machine but he again surprised me by immediatly handing it over to his mother. I turned bright red and started to flee(who wants to get caught doing something nice? not me!) but the mother looked up smiling sweetly yet again and thanked me...I smiled and nodded...then FLED from embarassment.
Well today I brought a movie with Korean subtitles to work to give to my korean friend 이은경 so she could get more formiliar with English. I also brougth her my notes, outlines and study guides from the communication class I took last semester since she was now taking that class and was struggling alot thanks to still being kind of weak in english. She introduced me to two of her friends and then I got invited out of no where to a Korean Concert festival thing happening tomorrow night up at the U of U, she'd give me a ride and everything. I am elated, I always take ANY chance to be exposed to Korean culture/language I can. I hope I can go.
So see Karma works, especially if you force it to. I always do something nice for someone when they do for me...or if I can't I make sure to randomly help someone out who could use it when I see it.
:)