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

Originally Posted by dyimages

/let chest pounding resume

woohoo! prom shmrom

well thats tru but in the same token she waited from febuary untill lastnight to try and fix things, which leads me to belive that she is just desprate for a date, if she reconized her mistake and wanted to fix it more than 48 hrs from the event i may have been a bit more willign to go, but im not gonna get my head in a spin worring about the tux,flowers, and all that other stuff when there is only little time left. Like i said if she still shows intrest after the prom than i will consider letting her prover herself to me untill that time im not gonna sweat it.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

woohoo! prom shmrom

thats a great pic of yourself lol jk

You made the right call. Still, it generally doesn't hurt anything to be kind and at least show sympathy. People make mistakes, and life is long. Life is funny, too - you might be trying to get a bank loan from this girl one day. That sort of thing.

Frankly I would not sweat it. Probably i would have had no interest in getting back with her long term even if she crawled on broken glass begging for forgivness. My point was if your going to talk about Karma and what goes around comes around we all need to look at our own actions and motives at in good times and bad. It is real easy to step up in good times, but takes a real man to step up for others in bad times

then I could ask the question that I sure everyone has thought at least to themself. Where are the odds of getting laid better? Trolling bush parties or going with a known entity......Just saying