All about retributions!

Retributions feels good and sweet. It satisfies the famous ego of one and brings a heartwarming smile to our faces. God knows that I have felt this way many many times, but my conscience is clear, because I did not cause the feeling of distress, I was just glad that justice was done. However, last week a friend encountered a situation that it made me wonder about the nature of retribution. How exactly does it work. And yes, it did happen to a friend!

I believe that the balance of the world is always maintained at all points of time. In order for one to get something, someone else must lose it, otherwise the harmony is lost. If the misery of one person makes me happy, because he feels the same way that I felt before by something that she inflicted on me, then sadly enough, when I am miserable, someone else is cheering because of the same exact thing that I did to her. And that did surprise me! How can I cause pain, mind you sometimes not even physical, on anyone. How can I be so unthoughtful or spiteful? And the answer is that sometimes we are, even without knowing.

There are times that we do the same thing to other people, because we choose to. We want to get even, and to treat them exactly like they treat us. We want them to feel the pain and the distress that they have caused. Very consciously we seek revenge and it is not to be confused with retribution. With that being said, I do admit that at times I have hurt someone's feeling, not because I wanted to but because I had to. As odd and unbelievable as it sounds, it was the best choice under those circumstances, the lesser evil of two evil choices. The intention was not to be hurtful, but it was hurtful nonetheless. And when karma gets back to me under similar circumstances, I do not like it, but I do get it.

But there are times that we do things without even knowing, thinking, contemplating. We do not mean to be hurtful, but we are. No one can deny that this has never happened the them, we have all done this and continue to do unless we make a conscious effort not to.

The bottom line is that what comes around, goes around. Every time you cheer when someone pays for the justice that is done for some wrongful act toward you, remember the days that you are miserable, because there is a big chance that justice is done for someone else because of you!!

The way I see it, retribution is a two way street. Even the holy and saint me have to pay for somethings at some times.