Journals

 Do you believe in Karma? If you don’t you might want to at least consider it after reading my very true, little story here.

     A few years ago, I had a couple of my neighbors stop by unexpectedly to pay a short visit. That evening, after they had left, I went to put a CD into my CD player while I cooked dinner. After searching high and low I ended up playing a different CD as the one I was looking for was nowhere to be found. I spent a couple of days looking for the CD while I cleaned up other things around my house, but still, no CD. I finally came to the conclusion that one of those two people who had visited me a few days earlier must have taken that CD. And one of those two individuals did have a reputation for taking things that do not belong to her and so I approached her and told her to return the missing CD as I was certain that she had taken it. You kind of should be getting an idea of where this is going by now.

     About three weeks passed and my cat got sick in the middle of the night so I immediately jumped out of bed, while half asleep, to clean up her mess before it had a chance to set into the rug. However, first I had to find it.  After a few minutes I realized that she had gotten sick under a chair right next to one of my dressers so I got down on hands and knees with paper towels in hand and proceeded to crawl under the chair that was loaded down with a ton of my other stuff sitting on it. It took only a second to realize that my cat had thrown up right on top of the missing CD. In one respect, this did make it easy to clean up, but it also left me with a huge apology that I needed to make to the person I had accused.

     Moral of this story: Sometimes you have to eat crow to take your Karmic medicine when it is handed out!

Bill Walker