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Acutally, here's an example of karma that many of you will relate to:
When I was younger, I did some work for a guy who drove me crazy with demands: Change this, change that, endless bullshit in Photoshop that went on for weeks.
Fine, I thought, I'm getting paid.
Then the guy didn't pay me. Told me he couldn't pay me, that my fees were too high, blah blah blah, after the fact bullshit.
I threatened to sue him. Wrote letters. Showed up at his house.
Contacted his regular suppliers and guess what? They too go screwed.
Fast forward to a few years later.
The cocksucker is sitting on an outdoor patio with all kinds of friends enjoying his life, nice summer night. I see him and decide I'm going to embarass him so severly, this is my chance to "get my money's worth".
Instead, I walk up to the table, maybe 15 people, people stop talking, I simply look right at him, smile and walk away. Dead silence.
I can see how terrified he is that I will "out him".
I decide to give him another chance to pay me, short of desparate humiliation.
I never get a cheque. It's not a happy ending.
Another few years go by, I see him in a Starbuck's, look right the fuck at him, don't move my eyes from his face for one minute. He doesn't flinch, even with my eyes burning his ass open.
He walks away and I think "damn, that motherfucker must be so haunted with runnin that he's built up TOTAL DEFENSES".
I'm short $2k, but instead of literally choking the guy, I walked away, and I can honestly tell you that I needed that $2k LIKE CRAZY at the time, but I needed my peace of mind more, and now, years later, I see that as an "inadvertent" test of my peace.
That, friends, is karma.
Now, instead of seeing that guy as some devilish cocksucker, I see him as a guy runnin' from his shit.
BUT, he still owes me that money, yessiree. Difference is, I ain't wasting my life energy trying to make him into something he's not.
It's his karma, after all.
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