Daily Prompt: Karma Chameleon

This just in: let’s pretend that science has proven that karma is a thing. Your words and actionswill influence what happens to you in the future. How (if at all) will you change your ways?

Let’s face it, as soon as you read the heading, this is exactly what went through your mind. It’s okay, you’re only human.

Now, raise your hand if you read the prompt and the first thing you thought of was

Again, I’m not surprised. Admittedly, I did the exact same thing. I really can’t help it due to constantly overhearing it being said, and having it said straight to my face whenever I’ve planned something… unsavoury.

Good ol’ Karma. That one theory that so many people believe in. Every now and then I find myself part of a conversation and somebody will either refer to not wanting to do X-action because they don’t want bad karma. Or on the flip side they believe that if they do something good, or do mutliple good things, then they will get a lot of good karma.

I’m a bit of a fence-sitter when it comes to this… sometimes I believe in it, and sometimes I don’t. It really just comes down to my emotional state at that precise point in time. Hmmm, it seems most things nowadays depend on my emotional state…

I think generally speaking, overall I would say that I do actually believe in karma in both good and bad forms. But then sometimes even whilst I might say I believe in karma, I’ll sit there convincing myself that it’s actually just a bunch of crap, and I’ll probably be due for a truck load of bad karma to come my way (let’s face it, if karma exists, then there’s a whole heap of bad karma with my name on it.) and so as a result, I do something positive instead in some pathetic attempt to balance it out. You know, because 6-months of bad karma is totally going to dissipate when I donate $70 to some charity that I saw on late-night television.

…although in saying that, their commercial was quite compelling and I wanted to contribute. I really should just do that more often so that I stop accruing bad karma points and start earning good karma points.

My approach to good karma vs. bad karma is the same way most people approach the gym: if I go do a cardio class / workout for an hour, then I can totally eat that box of 6 donuts / packet of biscuits without remorse.

Sidenote: if you are in fact one of those people, you need to realise that eating those donuts or that packet of biscuits actually means you’ll need to do at least 6+ classes / hours of exercise just to counterbalance all the calories you’ve ingested. 

Some people take the belief in karma quite seriously… some of them also tend to not believe in showering or not wearing footwear, and only wearing natural (tie-dyed) fibers… I on the other hand take it with a grain of salt. Does it make me want to change my behaviours? Not really. But I at least acknowledge that I need to change my behaviours – it’s just not as a direct result of believing in karma.

…It’s because I’m just a bitch.

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Dec 4 – Seconds

How often do you go back for seconds?

Let’s just talk about this in relation to food in general. So, when Hulk and I have dinner at home, we usually have pretty big dinners so seconds aren’t really an option. Most of the time we have a huge salad and then some meat like lean beef or kangaroo. Yes. Kangaroo.. and by then end of it, we’re both usually quite full.

However, there are times when I might be so hungry I could eat a baby and then it’s on!

I’m the person that shouldn’t be taken to a buffet because of the amount of food I can put away on an empty stomach, and if I’m really hungry, then it’s fucking on like Kong!!

One of our favourite places to eat is a sushi train restaurant in the city. It’s small and compact, and all the dishes to around and around on all different coloured plates, and more often than not, we’ve both got a large pile of plates before we’re even aware of what’s happened. You just start eyeing off food as soon as you sit down. And the worst part about sushi train? Everything is small and easy to eat, so you just shovel it away before you start looking down the conveyor belt with dilated pupils thinking ‘MORE!! GIVE. ME. MORE!!’

…then there’s desserts. JEEBUS. That’s like my kryptonite. I just can’t get enough.