A.S.M.

My post yesterday on Karma reminded me of a recent conversation.

“Oh man!”  A guy in my taxicab heaves a sigh of resignation.  “I give up on getting my ex girlfriend back.”

“So you’re folding up like a paper fan?”

“What else can I do?  Karma has decreed that I have to settle for less.”

“And what did you do to merit such a terminal sentence from Karma?”  I asked but didn’t wait for an answer.  “I do know how karma works and you don’t get bad back unless you earn it.”

“I’ve done everything to get my ex girlfriend back.”

“Everything is a very big word.  The entire past, present and future population of the world could take continuous actions for eternity and still they wouldn’t have done everything.”

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“Well, I’ve bashed my head against a solid wall for long enough.”

“If you had really done it enough, then we wouldn’t be having this defeatist conversation about getting your ex girlfriend back because you would’ve done it enough to be successful.  After a guy has bashed his head against a solid wall for too long, he comes to one of two conclusions.  The easy option is to go looking for a weaker wall.  The other way is to strengthen your head and then bash through.”

“I don’t like the sound of that lesser wall.  I just want my ex girlfriend back.  She was perfect for me.”

“But you obviously weren’t perfect for her.”

“She liked me well enough at first.”

“Then she realized that you didn’t have either vision or staying power.  She didn’t relish a future chained to a quitter who would quickly blame karma for a lack of success that was actually owed to his shortage of determination.”

“That’s kinda harsh!”

“It’s fairly realistic though, isn’t it?”

“I’ll keep trying.”  He said resignedly.

“That would be pointless.  You’ve already badly bruised your forehead without leaving any chinks in your ex girlfriend’s armor.  In fact, your feeble efforts have just made her strengthen her resolve against you.  Before you go back to her again, you need to toughen up your skull.  Then you can overwhelm a wall that isn’t strong enough to hold you at bay.  And when you DO break-through with your ex girlfriend, just that will absolutely prove to her that she is with the right guy for her.”

“How do I do that?”

“Well to start with….”  I won’t write my full answer here, because I’ve sprinkled this post with links to the head strengthening solutions.

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Life revolves around karma

This is a cab story but also a human demonstration of karma in action.

The taxi company I work with has a contract with a popular nightclub. We are the only taxis allowed to pick-up there. A trade off is that we sometimes have to accept one of the club’s courtesy cards which is a cheap fare charged back to the nightclub.

I was about to pull into the nightclub parking lot, and I had the right-of-way to do so, but an over-eager other driver cut me off to get into the line ahead of me. I could have got angry but I just took the spot behind him – and karma took over from there.

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The nightclub was closing and the taxi line started moving. I watched one of the club’s doormen go to the cab in front of me and hand the driver a courtesy card. ‘Hmmm, I’m now quite happy that he dodged in front of me’ – but this story gets even better. The second two bouncers come out half carrying a very drunk person, and they almost literally ‘pour’ this sodden person into the back of Paul’s van. ‘Now I’m REALLY pleased that I wasn’t in the spot Paul stole from me.’ But Karma hadn’t finished yet.

“Woah,” another guy has left the nightclub about the same time, and he hops into my passenger seat, “that guy was super drunk! He puked onto the inside of the door as they were hauling him out.”

“Wow!” I chuckled. I know that a drunk who is sick will not just vomit once. “He’s likely also barfing right now in the cab in front of us.”

Sure enough, Paul’s taxi had started to move but then pulled over to the curb. The frantic driver was trying to open the door to allow the drunk to be sick outside, but it already was too late. For the tiny fare on the courtesy card, the unfortunate driver would have to spend hours cleaning a smelly mess from the inside of his car – and his evening was finished until he completed the nasty task.

‘Are you happy that you cut me off to snatch my spot?’ I silently asked as we drove by. Then I thought to ask my passenger where he was going.

“Do you have a flat rate to ——-?” He asked regarding a smaller town some distance away. It’s a gravy trip worth a couple hundred dollars. And karma had done the job perfectly. Had the greedy driver not stolen my place, I would’ve gotten the barfing drunk on the courtesy card and he would’ve been headed out of town for the choice trip.

Karma doesn’t always demonstrate itself quite so clearly, but karma is always working in the background to ensure that people get what they deserve – both good and bad.