A different outlook on life?

I'm not sure if that's the right title....but....it will work.

Random acts of kindness would also be a good one...but a bit too cliche.

I try to find the upside to everything. I'm a firm believer of "everything happens for a reason" and while it may take years to figure it out there is a reason.

example: my mom married my dad, in 1992 moved 2000 miles away from family then got divorced in '96, but because of moving out here...my mom met my now step dad and couldn't be happier. It took 14 years for them to get married, but if it hadn't been for my dad's new job and moving out here, she never would have met him. So as much as my mom hates my dad, aside from me and my brother (which I think she's only thankful for on the good days ;) ) it's because of him, she's happy now.

I am also a HUGE believer in karma, I even plan on getting "karma" tattooed on me in the near future.

When most people think of karma its usually something bad and runs along the lines "what comes around goes around" and in the context of A hurt B and now something bad will happen to A. But rarely do you hear about A helped B or A did something nice, so good karma is going to follow them. And I guess that is going to mostly be what this blog is going to be about....

It seems that karma and fate go hand-in-hand, at least my life.

I try to do just one nice thing a day for some random person. Never anything hard to do, but also not something expected (saying bless you when someone sneezes) But something as small as slowing my car down so someone can switch lanes on the road, or taking the time to sit for a minute longer so someone can cross the street. While yes, these seem standard, people don't do them very often. A very common one is allowing someone who has a handful of items in the store to go in front of you, when you have a cart full.

I believe with karma, the biggest thing that people seem to miss, is not to expect anything in return. When you have good karma points, karma decides when you get to cash those points and it may seem completely irrelevant to anything.

Another great example: A couple weeks ago, I had cut my toe nails, the next day I went to a friends house and stubbed my toe...right in the middle of the toe, blood, limping to walk and everything. and while it hurt like no other, if I hadn't cut my nails the night before not only would I have stubbed my toe, I would of had to deal with my nail splitting.

I believe karma saved me from that one. What did I do to get those points? no idea. Why did it choose to cash them in then? who knows.

So back to the focus of this whole thing (which if its not to late...I think I found a better and more suited name) is to focus on the karma points in my life, whether gained or lost, and when it decides to cash in some points. About how I make karma fit into my life and how I fit into it.


"I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good."