Karma
I grew up in a community where we let everything go, and hand our offenders over to life hoping that karma would do its thing, but at the long run, I realized that Karma is just a name given to a way of letting people go scot free with a lot of offences.
One of my friends at the university was intentionally failed by a lecturer, and that automatically gave him an extra year in school. Despite efforts to prove that he didn’t fail the course, they showed us who the boss was. Now, my friend is done with school, but he’s yet to forgive the lecturer who toyed with his life.
During the period he had to stay an extra year, he had missed out on opportunities which should’ve been ones to propel him in life, but everyone keeps telling him to forgive and let go. To top it all, they say that, maybe those opportunities were not meant for him. How’s that even supposed to make him feel better?
Three years later, this same lecturer has done his thing to another set of students, and again, they say, let Karma do its thing. But does karma really exist? Isn’t taking measures against the people that offend us supposed to be their Karma? Then, why do we get told to let them go when there’s a possibility of them living a good life irrespective of their actions that have left people sad?
At the long run, karma is only for the people who have no means to protect themselves. Karma only punishes the poor, and powerless, but lets the rich and influential ones go free.
If karma does exist, the old corrupt men we have in power today wouldn’t even have smelled that seat because they would be somewhere feeling the effects of their many years of accumulated corrupt actions.
The man in my village that was known as the greatest molester of all times is still roaming freely, cruising around town in the best rides, spending lavishly because the money never finishes, while his victims cower in their rooms for the fear of being harassed over and again. And there is Karma taking out time to rest because he is influential.
When I asked my friend if he had forgiven the man that made him spend an extra time in school, he said, “never”, and the catchy part of his response is that “he is not even waiting for Karma to deal with him because he doesn’t believe Karma exists, so he’s waiting for a perfect time to return the favour”. Well, maybe we are supposed to be the karma after all.
One thing I’ve learnt in life is to try not to be a victim as much as possible. Sensed a kind of danger on your life? Try to protect yourself as much as possible. Someone tries to bully you? Learn martial arts to protect yourself? I understand that falling victim to these situations is not what anyone wants or even dreams of, but as much as possible, protecting ourselves from being victims is better than waiting for karma to do its thing because it seems like Karma is a bluff after all.
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It's like 'insha allah' or god willing - leaving it to a higher power. Perhaps it's just a way to find meaning when there doesn't seem to be - saying there's a force at work that is making everything happen the way it's meant to sometimes helps us cope with situtations outside of our control.
Karma is often misunderstood as immediate cosmic justice - good gets good, bad gets bad. But traditionally, it's more about every action thought and intention creating an imprint that shapes our experiences, now and across lifetimes. It's more about being mindful of our actions so that we take responsiblity for them rather than some kind of retributive justice or external punishment.
And if we're not taking responsiblity, or don't appear to be in this lifetime, then yes, I think you're right - we are meant to be the karma in these circumstances, bring people to justice and account because they don't seem capable of it themselves.
But if justice isn't coming, and if we can't do anything about it even though we try, then yeah, we have to let go for the sake of our own mental health and those around us, and we have to find a way to forge a new path with new intentions. Perhaps the karma is replaying on us and that's why we are getting what we get? I mean if you believe in karma, it has to be over lifetimes, right, so maybe it is our karma after all. But there's good lessons in there for us, surely.
No wonder people do things because they know that the weak ones won't have the power to bring them to justice.
Perhaps it's just best to avoid situations where we will have to scream Karma when it most likely will not happen in this life.
I actually wish that people fear Karma enough to make them avoid bad acts towards other people so that people will not have to struggle mentally to be back on track.
I think we're more and more moving away from those systems of spirituality and religion in favour of the gods of Tik Tok where morality is secondary to fame.
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