Karma's a bitch....

I am a big fan of karma. It's not a bad thing. The way I see it is that the universe has a way of giving people back what they put out. So you put out negativity, you get it back, if you talk badly about other people they'll talk badly about you, you're mean to people, people will be mean to you back. It's obvious really. I like to do as much as I can do to stock up some good karma in my karma bank. I try wherever I can to be kind, to speak kindly, to encourage and support, to see the good, to be positive.
Recently there have been a couple of incidents where two different people have been very mean, more than mean, actually cruel to good friends of ours. One of them is a work situation, where someone had to get a recommendation from somebody and because of that person's jealousy they sabotaged and gave a bad review and cost the person a job. And then I heard about somebody who is going out of their way to put somebody off a particular girl and encouraging them not to date her even though he likes her.
These are two of the most typical incidents of accruing bad karma. And oh how many times I have watched and seen it come back on that person in spades. I think it's far safer to stick to the old adage of, "if you don't have anything nice to say about somebody, then say nothing at all." It"s easily done. Just mind you own business, keep your side of the street clean, be nice. Unless there is a really really good reason to steer someone away from somebody else then I don't think you should. You might not like that person particularly, you might have issues with them but that's you, and in life I think it's better to just keep your negative opinions to yourself and it makes me really cross when I hear about people doing that when their only real agenda is their own ego and protecting their position without any real regard for any of the people concerned. Really how people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours so what can you do.
Life's not always fair, and sometimes there's nothing you can do to stop people saying mean things about you or other people. Sometimes you just have to sit back and watch them store up a whole pile of bad karma and just not get involved.
We have had a week full of all kinds of good karma in this house. Work continues to get better and better in 2010 and the house continues to be filled with the good and the kind and the talented.....
This week we had a great dinner at the house and then watched a couple of great movies with a bunch of friends who happen to be actors...... The gorgeous Matthew Rhys, JJ Feild, Steven Cree, Alistair Macenzie, oh and a couple of directors in the shape of Nick Moran and our own Alex Hardcastle. And the beautiful Sadie for good measure too. So we all cozied up in the screening room, sharing chairs and sharing the love and creating some pretty good karma.....isn't that what life's all about.....