KARMA IS DHARMA

I believe in karma.

What's the point in judging anybody? As they sow, so shall they reap.

We're young now, and hardly capable of telling right from wrong and good from bad, but I think as we get old, we'll know. The hundreds of "friends" that we have thanks to the age of social networking and thanks to being a generation that seems to consider anything less than overly friendly either timid or rude, will all prove their worth or lack thereof.

Irrespective of how meaningful their status updates seem, whether they quote Coelho or Rumi, their lives will eventually tell you if they imbibed or even understood any bit of that. Irrespective of how friendly they may have behaved, you'll eventually know whether those were attempts to be generally popular or whether they cared for you. In the meanwhile, we're all we have to work on.

We're young now, and I think it's quite a task to develop just about enough clarity to observe our own selves and find enough motivation to become better - at the things we do, and as people. When there's so much else to do, I can't figure why there's some sense of glamour attached to the entirely wasteful act of gossiping about people.

The point is not to be self-centric. Furthest away from that, in fact. It is to eliminate what's futile so that we can focus on the things and the people that matter.

I keep realizing every now and then, that when we're young is a good time to become a good person. When we get old, those who didn't work on their goodness will be the cranky sort that become an annoyance and everyone secretly wishes they die. Those who did, will end up with graceful wrinkles that speak of their tears full of care and their smiles full of love, and they'll still laugh with a twinkle in their eye and die painlessly in their sleep.

And I certainly hope to fall in the latter category.

P.S. - When we're young is also the time to be a little crazy and follow dreams and have way too much fun so that we end up with an endless number of awesome stories that we shall tell our grandkids before dying painlessly in our sleep.