Karma: The Teacher Who Doesn't Yell

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I believe that what goes around comes back around! I believe in the universal law of cause and effect: "every action has a corresponding reaction." I believe that Karma is never about payback but about lessons of our actions.

I don't know if I have shared my story where, back when I still lived with my child's father, I badmouthed a neighbor who was having it rough. I was so careless with my words, that I just let them slip out straight into the open listening ear of the universe.

Trust me when I say, a few months later, the universe was knocking at my door to deliver a package. I know you can guess what was wrapped in the packaged box. Yes, a lesson came wrapped up, disguised in a pain I would never wish anyone.

As I ran up and down the streets of Thika trying to find a solution to our problems, on the mercies of second-hand dealers, I couldn't help but feel the defeat that comes with lacking, the same lack I had mocked a few months past.

I remember at that moment of struggle, I reached out to some neighbors I was acquainted with, who turned their backs on me. They grouped themselves, as they were tribe mates, to gossip about my situation. I would be lying to say that it didn't hurt. It hurt like hell.

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It was that very same exposure that taught me the power of words, and the universal balance of everything we do in this life.

That very year, I witnessed the very same neighbors go through the same struggle. One by one, they too were selling their household stuff to sustain themselves.

By then, I had bagged my lesson and scribbled it right next to my heart, and made a pact to the Heavenly Father and the Universe, that never again, would I talk ill of someone's struggle, or even dare point a finger at them.

By the time my backbiters were going through their struggles, we had started to rise again and thrive. Although we're no longer together, I thank heavens that through that patch we stuck together. Not to mention the lessons that were brought to my attention by the power of Karma.

Karma, in its very essence, carries lessons with it that it teaches us, but only if we are open enough to acknowledge our misdoings. Karma is a blessing disguised in pain.

They say karma is a bitch; quick to bite, slow to forgive. But I say karma is a teacher in this school called life. She doesn’t yell, she simply waits until the lesson lands. And when it does, you either grow… or repeat the class.

She landed on my doorstep and left a long lasting impression and rewrote the way I speak, think and walk through this life.

Thank you for reading❤️!