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What does 'karma' mean to you?
Dec. 29th, 2005 12:30 amIt doesn't.
I truely dosn't. It might be one of the shortest, surest thoughts I've ever had, the play of it in my head something even less than the sounds when they're spoken. It doesn't mean anything because for it to do that, to take on weight and value and importance it would actually have to exist. Karma isn't anything, and it isn't less than anything either, the negative value that people assign to people and places and idea that they hate, or can't live with...or worse. Can't face the part where they hate it, but live with it anyway.
Karma's an empty word, a blank hollow with nothing at all to fill it up.
And I'm not saying that I believe in it the other way round either. They'll rail against the idea of it, get upset. Call it wrong and come of with their own ideas of how the world looks and works. But the funny thing is they all come up with the same idea. So many different people, and backgrounds, and I suppose if I wasn't so sure of myself their collective voice could be enough to make someone believe.
...anti karma.
If good doesn't come to good, and bad punished with bad, then it must be the opposite. That bad things happen to those that doesn't deserve it, and good things happen for the most awful, hurtful of beings. It's a wicked see saw that throws you to the ground and bruises a body for the pleasure of it. It's a game that favors the very people it shouldn't, and chances are things you start to dread out playing.
But that's not right either. It's so ...far from that place.
There is no karma. There is no anti-karma.
There's only choice. Sometimes there's too many, or too few, and sometimes we don't even see the ones we have. But it will always be there, the true opposite of empty words and ideas. Choice. What we've done, and will do, it will all always be linked by the choices we make. That, and the responisbity to own up to them.
I truely dosn't. It might be one of the shortest, surest thoughts I've ever had, the play of it in my head something even less than the sounds when they're spoken. It doesn't mean anything because for it to do that, to take on weight and value and importance it would actually have to exist. Karma isn't anything, and it isn't less than anything either, the negative value that people assign to people and places and idea that they hate, or can't live with...or worse. Can't face the part where they hate it, but live with it anyway.
Karma's an empty word, a blank hollow with nothing at all to fill it up.
And I'm not saying that I believe in it the other way round either. They'll rail against the idea of it, get upset. Call it wrong and come of with their own ideas of how the world looks and works. But the funny thing is they all come up with the same idea. So many different people, and backgrounds, and I suppose if I wasn't so sure of myself their collective voice could be enough to make someone believe.
...anti karma.
If good doesn't come to good, and bad punished with bad, then it must be the opposite. That bad things happen to those that doesn't deserve it, and good things happen for the most awful, hurtful of beings. It's a wicked see saw that throws you to the ground and bruises a body for the pleasure of it. It's a game that favors the very people it shouldn't, and chances are things you start to dread out playing.
But that's not right either. It's so ...far from that place.
There is no karma. There is no anti-karma.
There's only choice. Sometimes there's too many, or too few, and sometimes we don't even see the ones we have. But it will always be there, the true opposite of empty words and ideas. Choice. What we've done, and will do, it will all always be linked by the choices we make. That, and the responisbity to own up to them.
