Here is a long overdue blogpost on the amazing and awe-inspiring nature of instant karma which has become so, so apparent to me over the past 30 odd days. (Not that I particularly subscribe to some New Age pick-and-choose-which-bits-you-like Hinduism, rather that 'you reap what you sow' is a central part of my actual belief system) This will be followed by a couple of mad, rambling anecdotes (naturally)
Currently it is lent, and, as I do every year, I decided to challenge myself to something. Now, we all know the debacle of when I tried to make everyone on my Facebook friends list smile (lent 2011) and that weird time I was forced, reluctantly, to give up Johnny Depp (lent 2004) but this time it was different. I wanted something achieveable, but challenging. The Facebook friends list one was very challenging, but I never managed it (although having a good stab at it counts for something, I'm sure...) whilst the Depp thing was just plain bizarre. With this in mind, I decided I wanted to do something good, a good deed, if you will, every day of lent.
It started out as something nice. Just plain, old nice. I brought double chocolate brownies in for everyone at work. I got to eat some too! It was great. But as the days went by, I started to notice something...
A force that is beyond myself started to pay me back in weird and wonderful ways. I bought a coffee for someone behind me in the queue, I got a coffee bought for me the following week. I brought in mini-eggs for people at work who had helped me out at a stressful time, a 'well done' card landed on my desk for getting through the stressful time. And the gifts kept on coming. Coffee, chocolate, cards, thank-yous, well done, compliments, lifts home etc. etc.
So maybe I just know some pretty awesome and amazing people? Probably. And I feel quite guilty, like my efforts mean little compared to all these lovely blessings that keep on coming. But, onwards I go, because I am quite enjoying doing all these little things, and, hoping upon hope, that I might surprise someone, or make someone's day, or bless someone just when they needed blessing. Because now, I really need to pay everyone back for what they have blessed me with! So I guess the quantity and quality of what I do for the remainder of lent will have to increase - I need to up my game!
Maybe you knew about instant karma already, maybe you don't believe in it, maybe you just think I'm plain bonkers. If that's the case then I hope this post gives you a sense of what the little things can, and do, mean. And if you were one of the people who blessed me, then hopefully you get a sense of how much it meant to me.
And, to conclude, I now admit that today's blessing comes in the form of my friend, who vows to save me from the mafia wasp in my house (a wasp I think belongs to the mafia, and I don't know why)
Now, I really better go because I need to figure out how to avoid making a mistake in the quiz on Monday like the tainted love controversy of January this year (I must only quiz people on the original artist behind a particular strain of musical genius when I definitely, definitely know that I am right!)
Furthermore, it's worth noting that instant karma works the other way too. You know, put vinegar in your Dad's wine glass and get attacked by the largest spider you have ever seen...that kinda thing.
Be warned!
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