---Good Karma Bad Karma

They say that when you do something good, it's going to come back ten folds, but I think that theory is a fallacy. People have their natural tendencies to do good or bad, usually what comes first is the most dominant of all. According to the Vedas belief, if one sows goodness, one will reap goodness; if one sows evil, one will reap evil. How can this be true? How is unconditional love not gaining love in return?

While we were at the cafeteria the other day, one of the agent was narrating her hold-up experiences the third time around. Her bag was taken including her cell phone, money, and some personal belongings. I told her be extra cautious next time, and avoid bringing important items, especially money. When I was taking the company's shuttle, or back in the days where I still couldn't afford a daily taxi ride, I would take public buses and jeepneys at the wee hours of the night. Most of the time, I keep my paper bills on my pants smallest side pocket, my cell phone is tucked in my jackets pocket on a silent mode or sometimes turn it off, and carry the jacket by my hands. My bag is just a decoy. I would look around; pray to good God and walk the fastest that I can. I lost my cell phone thrice already, the ever first phone we bought, the famous Nokia 3310, was stolen at a flea market at down town Manila, the second fell off my pocket and the last one was stolen at the company premise by a friendly bastard. My sister lost her phone right on the day of her birthday, ironically. Of many times she found cell phone and return it was sort of tantamount to the times she also lost her phone. SO where does the theory fall?

Earlier, GK and I had a luncheon date. While he was smoking, I was on queue at an ATM stand. As I entered, the machine said “Would like another transaction?" , I pressed NO, and the card of the previous banker ejected from the machine. We left the card at the security guard and walked away. While walking, he was whispering why I hadn’t pressed the "YES" button at the ATM machine for a possibility of checking if there was still money in it coz they wouldn't know anyway. Part of me felt that excitement of having to take something I just found. It’s not categorized on the stealing part since I found it in the first place. So I mused probably something good may come back.

While the thought of it was still lingering of the missed "opportunity”, got off the train, I hailed a cab, since the rain was starting to pour. When I told the taxi driver to turn to street where I live and found out that it's a dead end, he suddenly refused and gave the flimsiest excuse I ever heard. “That the cable of the taxi meter would break if the car would move backwards?" I think that was the most "stupidest" thing I've heard. Just as soon as I didn’t do something bad earlier...this is what I got? Good karma is equals to bad karma. I said, I should just have taken a look on that ATM card and bought a shoe at least to give justice.

Myth : busted.