Karma And His Friends

Something really interesting and funny happened tonight. It's so so... Weirdly amazing hah.

So I was taking a walk with my dad and brother in law along this path when I actually almost stepped onto a snake. A venomous snake! It was a braided krait, you can Google it. So yes, I almost stepped on it. Like the snake was literally below the sole of my right feet as I was about to take a step on the ground while walking. If my brother in law didn't warn me, I'll step on it right away.

My brother in law warned me so thankfully, I leaped in front with my left leg and I was further away from the snake. The snake then slithered away to another place.

Okay here's the interesting part. As some of you might know, I am a "slipper" kind of person. I love slippers, and I wear them like everytime, and everywhere. I rarely wear shoes, only wearing them for formal events, concerts or when I travel. However just now, right before I left home to go for this walk, I just suddenly told myself to try using this new shoes that I just bought. Like out of nowhere, with no plans and anything, I just changed to my new shoes and left home. It's just a sudden wish.

So can you imagine if I actually didn't wear shoes and wore my slippers instead? If I really stepped onto the snake :O And another interesting thing was that I decided to change my short pants to long pants. Same, no plans and anything, I just have this thought of wearing long pants for the night.

It's so amazingly bizarre to be honest. All of these only came to me after I reached home from the walk. It dawned upon me how and what if I actually didn't wear the shoes and long pants, and what if I really stepped onto the snake! Well it may and may not bite me. But the what ifs are there.

Just thankful for all of these chain of events. I hope this is part of a good karma that I cultivated for becoming a vegetarian haha. The snake was really cute though. It was small, about 40cm long, but it has black and yellow stripes. I did a search at home and it turned out to be venomous, yikes!

Well, just do good things, and good things will come to you. Be kind to one another, animals, human beings, and other things around you heh. Karma and all his friends are around us.

Karma

So today wasn't really a good day because... Someone actually has the guts to break into one of my workers' house to steal his phone and some money. Money from the flower sales for this week, which is supposed to be deposited into the bank. But hey the burglar was kind enough to leave my worker's wallet and bag behind! Still, I wish you a smooth journey to hell.

Just kidding. 

People always say here that "Uang yang didapatkan secara tidak halal, pasti akan hilang". Which translates to: Money that you earned by inappropriate ways, will one day disappear. So I don't really give a fuck to the money that he stole because it won't be any good use to him. It will disappear. I hope it will get stolen by someone again. Cause karma is a bitch my friend.

Does it mean the money was earned via inappropriate ways? Hmm no. Well it was lost by something that is beyond our control (i.e: burglary). I think money that you earned by inappropriate ways will be lost voluntarily. You know like maybe you spent it on something that made you a loss. Or maybe you spend it on an electronic device and it will spoil/it will get lost too. You know what I mean.

My dad always tells me that when you lose things in life, you don't really lose anything. It is when you lose part of your health, that's when you truly lose something. The first thing I asked when my worker told me that someone stole his money and phone was: Are you okay? Is anyone hurt? If the answer is no then okay. If someone is hurt oh boy I will definitely take action.

You see when I lose things, I don't see the things that I lost. I simply see at the action of stealing. When I lose money (say I got ripped off etc), well I'll just tell myself "bukan rezeki saya" (it's not my luck). I don't feel unhappy with the fact that I lose some money, but I am unhappy with the fact that I someone has to do this bad deed to others. Why would you right?

I used to have this thought that when someone stole something, I'll just let it go because that person may need that thing more than me. But then again I think to myself - there are always more than one way to get out of a bad situation in life, other than stealing money to help your condition.

I always feel that whatever you do to others, you don't just do it between you and that person. You are also dealing with the God that you believe in. And if you don't believe in God, then you're dealing with your own life. Your life's journey. Your future, your family, your children and so on.

I'm a true believer in Karma and I don't think the karmic law only falls for Buddhists. Karma is a law of nature. Whatever you do, you will get something in return. You do bad things, you will get bad things and vice versa. Simple as that! So yep. To whoever stole that money, I wish you all the best in life. Because life will get rough on you. I can't help but to sympathise with you and your pathetic action. 

That's all.