Whether you want to call it the Three-Fold Law or karma, I firmly believe that there are consequences for everything you do. Kindness and generosity tend to beget good fortune. The reverse, however, doesn’t always seem to be true; often, the bastards, the people who step on others and commit random acts of assholishness, seem to get ahead. See, the problem with the three-fold law or with karma is that often you don’t get to watch the person who did you wrong get his or her just desserts.
In today’s paper there was an article about a woman I know personally. I don’t have much fondness for her not only because she cheated me out of payment for my professional services and had the audacity to try to make me feel guilty for calling her on it but also because she treated me incredibly badly at a time when she knew I was personally and professionally vulnerable. The article in today’s paper was about a play this woman has written that is being staged here in DC. It’s a play about her recovery from what is described in the article as a “vicious assault” and how it derailed her life and career for at least five years.
Cook and serve karma. Not quite instant payback but it’s not often you get to see someone’s shitty behavior boomerang on them.
The thing of it is, I don’t feel better. It seems like too much, like too big a price based on just the things she did to me.
On the other hand, despite her huge “community of friends” and all the people who helped her recover from her ordeal, I doubt I’m the only person she ever fucked over.
So given that…why don’t I feel better knowing that sometimes, every now and then, you do get to see the going around coming around?