Karma Police

Sorry it’s been so long! I’ve been out of contact with the modernized world for two weeks! Here’s what I’ve been doing starting back almost a month ago (eeek, sorry!)

On way out of Rishikesh, I started thinking a lot about Karma and all the problems I have with it. So, Karma is basically kind of a pay back process with the universe—good and bad things happen if you, in turn, commit good and bad actions. Ok, I get that, I like that, you screw me out of money and later at some point you will get what you deserve. However, Karma apparently works off the idea of reincarnation and what you’ve done in past lives; so, if you steal now, you might not pay for it until the next life. This makes no sense to me, whatsoever. Think about this (and I very well might come off offensively, but trust me, that is not my intention, I’m just trying to make a point); let’s say that a Jewish man decides to take me away from my home and torture me via excessive physical labor and lack of sustenance, or maybe just kill me straight away with a bullet to the head or throw me in a gas chamber—is that ok? Of course not, you’d say (assumption). This is how I feel, as well, but it seems to me that that’s how karma can work. This, “payback over generations” thing is like saying that that would have been “my karma,” that I deserved to die because, being that my heritage is German, maybe I have an ancestor who was in WWII. Though I have nothing to do with the act, I’m somehow tied to it, and though Kelly now wouldn’t DREAM of committing such a crime, I still must pay. Puuuuuuuuhleeeeze. If I steal, cheat, lie, whatever, the universe needs to make me deal with it now, while I have some sort of recollection of my sin; either make me pay or kill me in such a way that I do—don’t wait to pounce until I’m too far removed to understand.

Ok, so there’s that. Now, let’s say, I , for example, die from Lung Cancer (because “karma uses my stupidity-read; addiction-against me”). So that means that EVERYONE I know is affected; do they all deserve to deal with this loss? And, what if they don’t? If one of my friends has immaculately good karma, does that save me or do they get some sort of treat in the future for having endured something that they didn’t deserve? Does that universe only work off what we’ve done, or can it owe use intern, in good and bad ways?

I, personally, know that I believe in spirits; I’m sorry, I have proof. I have a painting that I slopped together just after my grandfather’s death of a dragon when I was maybe 8. I let the picture dry for a few hours and when I went back to check on it, there were intricate flames coming out of it’s mouth. No one in the physical world had touched it and there’s no way that the person who painted the sloppy polka dotted figure could have produced those flames, as well. Is there room for karma and an afterlife?

What do you think?