Do You Believe In Karma and Godsmacks?
By dfinster
@dfinster (3528)
United States
March 4, 2008 2:40pm CST
If I didn't before what happened to me a few weeks ago definately renewed my faith in both. I have a former friend that was close to me up until about 6 months ago. I felt I could trust her with anything, until she watched our house when we were away for the weekend.
My hubby and I had to go out of town from a Friday night and returned on Sunday afternoon because of a wedding. I had this person stay at our house so she could take care of the dog and the other pets. A few days after we got home we were getting dressed to go to a school function that my daughter was in and I wanted to dress fairly nice and wear this beutiful gold and platinum watch that my hubby got me for a birthday gift last year. I went to my jewelry box to get it and it wasn't there. At first I didn't panick because I knew sometimes I would take off my jewelry and leave it in a little box I had in the bathroom closet. I went to look there and couldn't find it there or anywhere else in the house and we searched high and low. I also noticed that the pain medicine that I use for a condition that I have only had 2 tablets left and there were over 50 in the bottle when I last saw it because I just picked up the prescrition a few days before we went to the wedding. I was completely livid about this and immediatley was on the warpath. Now back in my younger years I would have probably kicked the crap out of someone for soing this but as an adult I decided I would calmly ask my "friend" about this since she was the only other person in the house before this stuff went missing. She completely denied know anything about either one of the items that were missing. I told her that I didn't believe her and that she needed to return the stuff or I would be calling the police to file a report. The watch itself was worth over $250. I ended up not calling the police and let it go for the time being. Now on Monday I went into town which is a very small town where everyone knows everyone else and at the grocery store I heard people talking about how unsafe things are around town because there had been a few break-ins over the weekend. It turned out the hardest one hit was this former friend and while she was telling the lady at the cash register what she was missing I was standing in the next lane and overheard her tell the cahier about this "new watch" that she supposedly just lost to the break-in and she described my missing watch to the letter.
After I got home and told my husband all he said was, "what goes around comes around". Which made Karma immediately pop into my head. And the fact that the exact thing that she had done to us happened to her so soon afterwards was what we in the military used to call a Godsmack. Do you believe in these things? Do you believe that you eventually get back what you give in some way?
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12 responses
@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
4 Mar 08
That is definitly a case of "Karma" what comes around goes around. how horrible for you to find out that a "friend" would steal from you that way. If its any constilation, she doesn't get your watch neither. Plus now she knows what it is like to have your stuff stolen. Good riddence to her. I am sorry for you, I do know how it feels to have stuff stolen from you. But I guess that is my "Karma" too, I have done things in my younger days that I am not proud of. These days I couldn't nor wouldn't steal anything from anybody.
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@awonderfullife (2893)
• United States
4 Mar 08
Wow, that's incredible. I do believe what goes around comes around. What you put out into the universe eventually comes back to you, good or bad. The most incredible part of your story is how you overheard everything, even the description of your watch. Your former friend deserves everything she got. I love it!
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@mbs730 (2147)
• Canada
5 Mar 08
Wow... well I am sorry she did this to you and yes she had it coming. Thats for sure. Let me tell you something. When I was in high school this girl bullied me terribly. I mean horribly to the point it has left me some emotional scars even to this day. And a year ago when things were really rough in my life I happened to see her myspace page and it appeared that things were going so wonderfully for her. She had everything (so it seemed) that I would have given my eye teeth to have. I was livid and just stopped believing in everything. Well quite recently I became aware of my high school reunion being organized by.. who I thought was this girl's best friend!! I just about flipped. I never had a problem with the one organizing the thing but I couldn't hold back and I emailed her and thanked her for bringing back some bad memories for me. I was not expecting a nice email from her because I wasn't overly friendly putting it lightly. She did email me back, to my surprise she was extremely nice and even told me she wanted to contact me for a long time but had forgotten my last name to let me know that the girl who tormented me is having the most rotten life now that is imaginable. Not only that, but she apparently tormented the girl, the friend who is organizing this thing. And obviously they were not friends for long! She also tormented others, even worse than me. And her life truly is crappy.. all that stuff that she put on her myspace page, well turned out to be fake! I know anyone can put anything they want but I figured it was true at the time because of it "being just my luck".
@nimette (338)
• Philippines
5 Mar 08
i believe in karma because that is what's keeping me from doing wicked stuff. karma had once befallen on me. back in highschool i was this pretty girl and i got a lot of suitors. there was this guy that liked me but i didnt liked him back so i told him nicely at first. but he became very insistent, he said all he wants is a chance which annoyed me so much that i didnt made any effort to hide my distaste. i ignored him as if he never existed. were classmates for long. and then 4 years passed he suddenly emailed me and started to get along. i felt sorry for not giving him a chance back then. i discovered that he was nice. we dated for about two months and then he dumped me so suddenly. i was hurt and for the first time i felt what was it like to get dumped like trash.
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@vera5d (4005)
• United States
5 Mar 08
oh geez...i would not tolerate that at all...I would be calling the police with an anonymous tip I think. (You'll have to use a payphone or write a letter, most places can track the phone number you call by) At any cost I would not talk to her ever again. Sometimes living in a small town really has its disadvantages.
I do believe in karma very much so. It is not right to do bad things, and it will come back to you, sometimes three-fold. I read somewhere once that you can undo bad karma, but can't remember what or where to cite the source.
@vera5d (4005)
• United States
6 Mar 08
I want to say it was a numerology site? It was some years ago. A really good book to read is "The 7 spiritual laws of success" by Deepak Chopra...I think I will need to request it from the library again, it's been a few years since I've read it...but I remember thinking man, this is one of the best books I ever read! There is a new version and the 1994 version out, i don't know if there is a difference.
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@angelface23 (2494)
• United States
4 Mar 08
I had a friend who was actually my best friend for a long time up until about September. I had been having some doubts about leaving my ex and had been confiding in her about it. I then find out that they had been dating and she didn't even tell me about it. When I confronted her about it she lied and then about a week later texted me to tell me the truth. We haven't spoken since. But I'm not the first friend she's done this to. She even did it to her own sister! Every relationship she has fails so I think that is her karma. Since she sticks her stuff where it doesn't belong she doesn't get to have a meaningful relationship with anyone.
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@dfinster (3528)
• United States
5 Mar 08
Wow, isn't it wonderful how people we think are close to us can turn on us. Even though this happened though I try not to let the bitterness get to me because there really are a lot of wonderful people in the world to. Thanks for sharing.~D
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
5 Mar 08
what a story, yes I do believe that what goes around comes around, I have seen it happen over and over again to different people
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@ethanmama (1745)
• Philippines
4 Mar 08
Yes, I do believe that you eventually pay for whatever you did, good or bad. That is a Buddhist belief that my mother instilled in me (although I'm not Buddhist myself). It's also probably the basis of the Golden Rule: Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you.
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@dfinster (3528)
• United States
5 Mar 08
I take it your mom is buhdist and you are not??? I think that's great how you can explore your spirituality. The buhdist religion for some reason comes to mind when it comes to karma for me. I like to hear how others would handle this and if their upbringing and religion has an effect on how they handle these situation.
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@Grandmaof2 (7579)
• Canada
4 Mar 08
Oh absolutely I believe!!!Whether right or wrong I do believe "what goes around comes around", always or should I say "Usually" in a different sense of the way but nevertheless it does come back to haunt you!!! We will reap what we sow.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Mar 08
Godsmack what a great way to phrase it.I do think that if youdo evil to someone else you will sooner or later get back that evil in triplicate. what goes around does come around you do good you get repaid in triplicate but evil will also get its just due.notice I did not say reward but more like comeuppance. Its so sad that she stole your beautfiul watch but she did get what she deserved.
