My Creatively Random Life

I have used karma  in a previous A to Z challenge but it is a topic that I have a deep connection to.  I have a deep belief that what you put out into the world does come back to you and I try to live my life as much within that philosophy as I possibly can.  I don't want to put anything out into there into the world that's going to come back to bite me in the butt.  It gets a little easier with age. The theory is that good intent and good deeds lay the way for good karma and future happiness whereas negative intent and bad deeds create bad karma and future suffering.  In some religions it is tied to the concept of future lives so what you do in this life effects what happens to you in future lives. Karma is difficult to define because there is so much diversity in the views of the different religions but it does seem to share common themes.   One of the main ones being that like deeds cause like effects, the effects of karma are not necessarily immedia...

One thing that I think almost every religion on the planet has in common is that somewhere in their teachings is some form of Karma.  No matter how it is worded there is some mention of the fact that how your actions others is how they will come back to effect you in some way. It's basically the principal of cause and effect.  A perfectly wonderful idea if you ask me and one that I wish some people would get through their thick skulls.  If you act like a total douchbag the universe is going to respond in turn.  Duh!  Now, I am not saying that it is easy to live by the idea of do onto others as you would have them do onto you.  ( I know I can't do it as people suck and I have a nasty temper) The general concept is what I like though, the idea that if you put enough positive energy out into the world it will come back to you.  It's enough to keep me going some days, the idea that it will hopefully get better.  That's not why I'm generally a good...