Thread: What comes around goes around......Karma????

thats in intrestign view point and i respect that. what i found funny was that in her head she had this grand plan and she dident work out the flaws before she acted on it, not her suffering. with any luck she will learn a lesson and will be a better person afterwards. I think if she still goes tomorrow she will find at least one person to dance with.

I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.

(Fritz Perls, 1969)

Originally Posted by Glenn24

I don't. I find this situation is just her making a stupid mistake. Don't get me wrong, I think you absolutely did the right thing. You just gave her a very important lesson in life, and she can hopefully come out of this experience as a much better human being and learn from her mistake. However, is finding pleasure in someone elses misfortunes, however deserved they might be, something good ?

Classic case of what the Germans call schadenfreude, which a French proverb defines thusly: "There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us."

definitaly soemthing i have to remember.^
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Personally I do not see the humor or pleasure in it. When I was 17/18 probably would have made my life (IMO at the time). However 26 or so years later. I feel for the girl a little. SR Prom is a 1 time thing, unlike most other events. Hell even a majority of the population has more Weddings than proms. It will now fall short of her dream.

You write in your post about karma, Ask yourself even if you had no interest in getting back with her long term (which I agree with) if you were to gentleman up, and go to the prom with her recognizing that you are doing it to help her. What does that do for your karma, conversely finding humor in another person loss/failure/sadness/Error (Whatever you want to call it) and sharing on the internet what does that do to the what goes around comes around theory.

We all (me included) like to speak of karma when we see someone that we are not fond of get a swift kick in the taco. But in reality to truly want to live the what goes around comes around We should probably reach down and help pick them up after getting their nuts rattled.

/let chest pounding resume