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Fucking karma. Oh my God. My entire life revolves around this principle that if you do something bad, karma is going to come and make you wish you never had. Every day I find myself slipping up and then something totally bad, out of my control of course, happens to me, and all I can say to myself is "fucking karma." Like yesterday for example. I was walking at a deli and was buying a sandwich when I picked up a bottle of water and decided that I wanted it too. I got to the cash register and completely forgot that I had the water bottle with me, and the employee did not ask about it, so I guess it slipped my mind. It was only once I sat down that I realized that I had not paid for the water. I debated going back and paying for it, but I mean who would do that? Yeah, you say you would . . . but you wouldn't. So I tried to open up the water and the second the cap came off the entire bottle spilled all over everything I was wearing. So basically, I had to walk around the entire fucking day with my shirt all wet. It may seem small, but I totally believe that this was an act of karma! And it is not the first time it happened to me. I highly advise you all to watch what you're doing for fear of angering the Gods of karma who just love to teach us wrong doing people a lesson. Here is the most basic definition of karma and its origins courtest of Basic Buddhism; gotta love those Buddhists.

Karma is the law of moral causation. The theory of Karma is a fundamental doctrine in Buddhism. This belief was prevalent in India before the advent of the Buddha. Nevertheless, it was the Buddha who explained and formulated this doctrine in the complete form in which we have it today.

Either this inequality of mankind has a cause, or it is purely accidental. No sensible person would think of attributing this unevenness, this inequality, and this diversity to blind chance or pure accident.

In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve. Usually, men of ordinary intellect cannot comprehend the actual reason or reasons. The definite invisible cause or causes of the visible effect is not necessarily confined to the present life, they may be traced to a proximate or remote past birth.

According to Buddhism, this inequality is due not only to heredity, environment, "nature and nurture", but also to Karma. In other words, it is the result of our own past actions and our own present doings. We ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery. We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate.

I guess I have decided my own fate up until this point. Have you?

And my friend Rachelle is incredible for telling me that I should totally write a post about karma . . . and hurr it is.