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The Unusual And Unnoticed Force Of The Karma Tsunami
If good attracts good and bad attracts bad, why do the pricks get away with it all the time? Or do they? Enter: the karma tsunami.
A wiseman once said that what people call karma is simply common sense.
If you take a second to think about it, it’s hard to argue against it. You do good, good is done to you. You are a prick, you attract the pricks. Of course, there are exceptions, because, luckily, good is done without aim, and, sadly, pricks exist whether you become one or not. Everything is mixed up: an action causes a reaction and we’re all in the middle doing the best we can do to stay afloat.
That being said, good actions tend to cause good reactions, and so the more good you project, the more good that can be reflected back at you. It’s almost a gravitational force that attracts bits of good to form clusters of good, and so on and so forth.
Nevertheless, it is something else that I like the most about the concept of karma: it isn’t normally used as a threat or as something to be afraid of, unlike religious concepts of good and evil, heaven and hell. You don’t often go about saying, ‘I’d better not do that because… karma’. Or, ‘unless you stop stealing from people, karma will get you’…