Karma is Real

Karma is the realest thing there is. Im talking its literally realer than the piece of

paper youre holding and the words that youre reading off this page. Now, youre

probably thinking What the hell is wrong with Stefan...why would this be his memoir?

Im going to tell you some short stories and examples that happened over memorial day

weekend. I was a skeptic too, I didnt think any of this stuff was real...but now Ive come

to realize theres something out there that's influencing what happens to everyone. You

might say Oh well thats just coincidence Im here to tell you it is THE FARTHEST

THING FROM IT!

First off, I need to ask the question What is karma? Actually its a little more

complicated than the phrase What goes around, comes around. Karma is actually the

sum of all your actions (both good and bad) and these actions and your total karma

negative or positive determines your future existence. This theory is very deeply rooted

in the Buddhist, Taoist, Sikhist and Hindu religions; wherein having positive karma

results in your reincarnation into a higher caste and then eventually you reach Nirvana.

For every religion its different but thats the short and sweet version I learned in

Mrs.Trias class in ninth grade history.

Now that you have a little bit of a more enlightened (pun intended) view on

karma, Im going to show you why I now think all of this might actually be true. To be

honest Im going to be trying to prove more of the Karmas a bitch approach to the
belief, rather than the actual religious aspect.
 To start this all off I have to take you back to this Memorial Day when the

majority of my family went upstate to relax and just be together. For some reason or

another I have a fairly lucid dream of being in Mrs.Trias class again, this was pretty out

of the ordinary and it just so happens that I wake up just after Mrs.Tria finishes her

lesson on karma, dharma, and Nirvana. Coincidence? I think not. So just some detail,

me and my brother have this thing where we usually steal little things from each other,

like money, clothes, a tube of toothpaste, etc. When my brother left out his wallet I saw

my chance to grab a twenty. Later that night all of sudden I have some acne on my

face. Which usually isnt out of the ordinary since Im a stressed out teenager. Around

12 oclock when I usually take my shower and get ready for bed I see my brothers towel

on the double sink in the hotel and I threw it on the floor. This just like before wasnt

really out of the ordinary, it was fairly normal. Nows where stuff starts to get a little

freaky. As Im trimming the never ending growth of facial hair I call a beard, BOOM!

I slipped...standing upright...on a dry floor...Im a pretty coordinated guy and stuff like

me falling on my ass for no reason is a little questionable. But I fell whatever. Heres the

freaky part. I fell and the towel that I threw on the floor was back in the EXACT same

place it was before I threw it on the floor. Im not easily convinced of the supernatural or

even the thought of a higher power working on my actions. But this shit got to me. That

isnt normal, you dont just fall for no reason and towels just don't magically appear back

where they were like nothing happened. The very next day Peter (my brother) needs
$20 exactly to buy something from the gift shop. Im not talking about oh they priced it

at $20 Im talking about they entered the wrong number because it was more expensive

and the price they entered WITH TAX ended up being EXACTLY $20, so I gave it to

him. Again pretty freaky, coincidences like that dont just happen in my opinion. The

whole reason, Im writing about karma is because after I did that my vacation and even

my relationship with the rest of my family seemed to improve in one way or another.

Everyone was talking, getting along for the most part, and everyone was having fun.

One of my cousins whos the same age as me even talked about going up to Vermont

together since we would have over a month off from college (hes starting school at

Syracuse this September) and how we could get student passes and go up as many

times as we wanted. Everything just felt right in a weird (maybe even cosmic way).

This next part gets a little darker, less of the I learned my lesson and everything

turned out great and more of someone getting punished. My dad and I have a terrible

relationship, he used to be someone I looked up to (I even wrote my entire college

essay about the lessons hes taught me)...but now...everything has changed. Hes

borderline abusive to the point where I had to get stitches one time. Weve gotten into

fist fights before, yelling and screaming at each other was pretty normal, and now we

havent talked in over a month. While I was writing this for some reason I started to pay

attention to the J. Cole lyrics of 4 Your Eyez Only and one line that stood out was Sent

your pops to prison when he needed education. My issues with my dad all culminated
in him getting kidney stones recently. If that isnt payback, then I have no idea what is.

Having to pee out a literal clump of sharp calcium is probably one of the more painful

things someone would have the unfortunate luck of going through. I on the other hand,

have never been better. And I actually started to be a nicer person in a way, Im now

helping my brother even if he doesnt know it, and my mom and I still have a great

relationship.

I understand that you might not be convinced with all of this and even for me this

is fairly new considering it all happened a week or two ago. But still you have to admit

theres gotta be something out there that's pulling the strings.