Karma...

Hello my lovely lovely readers...

 

I only just realised that I've been pretty good with updating my blog recently, I've had some positive feedback from my readers and I'm generally proud of it :-) . (I must be doing something right when a picture of a coffee and cookie gets 78 views in 24 hours)

 

Good stuff and bad stuff has happened recently, and as a lot of you probably know, my religious beliefs are a bit complicated. For those of you who don't know, I do not believe in God, I do not believe in heaven or hell, I do believe that there is a more intelligent, more powerful race of beings out there in the galaxy but they are not gods... kinda sounds very odd when I write it like that but hey ho, I am odd. Anywho, I've come to start thinking that there really is such a thing as Karma.

For those of you who don't know what Karma is-

Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म IPA: [ˈkərmə]  ( listen);^[1] Pali: kamma) in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies.^[2]

Thank you Wikepedia. Basically it boils down to, good things and bad things balance out. Hindu's believe that if you are good in one life, you will be reborn in the next in a better situation, for instance if you are from a low level Caste in this life but live your life well and do good things, you will be born into a higher Caste in the next. The reverse is also true, with the worst being, turned into and animal and then a plant.

I digress though. I don't believe that interpretation, I think that all things live in a Balance, kinda like the Deferi in Star Trek Online, for instance, no matter how good you are, bad shit is gonna happen to you eventually. I've been told it's quite pessimistic, but I don't think it is.

 

For instance, take yesterday (or rather Tuesday which is no-longer yesterday), I was in Glasgow having a wonderful time with a couple of old friends, basically killing time waiting for 16:00 to go to a film event as part of the GYFF (Glasgow Young Film-makers Festival). I won the award for best individual film and therfor the amazing prize of an Alienware M15x Laptop :-D It's gorgeous and I love it just as much as my MacBook Pro. I've always wanted an Alienware computer and I really wasn't disappointed. I'll take some pictures of all the merchandise it came with at some point and post them here. Anywho, yeah, I was carrying back this massive box from The Arches all the way along Argyle and to the top of Buchanan Street to get to Queens Street Station, when a girl, probably about 16 or so spots me with my arms full of box and swerves towards me saying "alrigh' mate, how are ya", brushes past me and then disappears... I didn't think anything was wrong as I was just concerned about walking around Glasgow at 18:30 with a £900+ Laptop. It wasn't until I got to the station and tried to find my phone that I realised it had been stolen. I was not happy. After emptying the contents of my bag and pockets in the middle of the station, I decided to put the laptop in stoarge (£6) and run back down to the Arches on the off chance I had left it there.

No such luck. So I trudged my lazy, unfit arse backup to the station and resigned myself to the fact that my phone had been stolen.

I am I the only one seeing the balance thing here? I win a wonderful thing but lose my phone.

Other things like this have happened in the past aswell though, for instance the whole police thing happened at a time when I was finally starting to get back on my feet and almost ready to return to school, getting nominated and accepted for awards and then my dog getting diagnosed with Cancer. That sort of stuff.

It happens all the time, whenever something good is happening, something bad is inevitably around the corner. But it seems to balance out usually and so the Bad has the same or similar weight to the Good.

 

I think that's probably enough ranting from me for one day.

I had an amazing time in Glasgow Olivia and Emma-Jane. Thanks :-)

 

I should be back down that neck of the woods in the next week or so for another film event.

Oh and I'll also hopefully be visiting people in Blairgowrie and possibly even Dundee in the next couple of weeks :-) (all thanks to my new 16-25 rail-card, a 3rd off really makes a hell of a lot of difference you know)

 

Anywho,

Much love my friends

 

Oliver V. Smith