More March Mayhem
Kharmic Payback (according to the New American Josetionary), is when something bad happens to a person as a direct result of something good happening to a person. A Monkey's Paw (also according to the Josetionary) is when you wish for something, and your wish is granted along with some horrible side effect. I'm trying to decide whether this weekend was a case of Kharmic Payback or a Monkey's Paw.
The situation was simple, I wanted to go to Evansville, IN, one of the larger population centers within a two hour drive. My goal was to go to Kinkos and experiment with the format of the Mini-comic I'll be offering at SPACE. In addition, I decided "screw the budget"; I was gonna buy some stuff. Welp, everything went according to plan, but on the ride home the heater core on my car blew, which not only made the ride home both cold but also challenging (big fog/frost problems). Now it's gonna take $300 to fix. That's one of the many reasons my blog entry on Sunday was so melancholy. Anyway, so what do you people think, Kharmic Payback (I had a good day and as I result I paid for it with a busted car) or Monkey's Paw (Screw the Budget: Okay, now I got a $300 expense).
In more important news, I got lots of stuff to review including some anime (Ninku, Samurai Shamploo), movies (The Thing, Zaitochi), and comics (Shaolin Cowboy, The Forever People). Hopefully, I can squeeze some in in the next few days.
The situation was simple, I wanted to go to Evansville, IN, one of the larger population centers within a two hour drive. My goal was to go to Kinkos and experiment with the format of the Mini-comic I'll be offering at SPACE. In addition, I decided "screw the budget"; I was gonna buy some stuff. Welp, everything went according to plan, but on the ride home the heater core on my car blew, which not only made the ride home both cold but also challenging (big fog/frost problems). Now it's gonna take $300 to fix. That's one of the many reasons my blog entry on Sunday was so melancholy. Anyway, so what do you people think, Kharmic Payback (I had a good day and as I result I paid for it with a busted car) or Monkey's Paw (Screw the Budget: Okay, now I got a $300 expense).
In more important news, I got lots of stuff to review including some anime (Ninku, Samurai Shamploo), movies (The Thing, Zaitochi), and comics (Shaolin Cowboy, The Forever People). Hopefully, I can squeeze some in in the next few days.
2 Comments:
Well, if it's payback, you value your good days at $300, or you got a lot of them recently. Same with the Monkey Paw theory. Just seems a bit unbalanced from one day's events. It's prolly a culmination of kharma up to this point OR more likely, it's a down payment on some good kharma coming up. I like to think the kharma accountants have studied modern banking and understand down payments, compound interest, average daily balances and the like. I also like to think they're more noble about all that and don't follow the principles of large scale credit card banks. I could be wrong, though.
Still, my theory, down payment. SPACE'll prolly be rocking since you were working on that a bit in Eville.
I might have to agree with shafe on this, it simply seems like a kharmic down payment. Things could have turned really bad and as a person that believes in certain buddhistic values, i think karma works on deeds, not the your self-valuation of what makes you happy (i.e. the trip to evill) and usually it's not supposed to work the opposite way (unless you're a self-gratifier). The monkey's paw actually seemed a bit more spontaneous than something you actually wished for. But hey, they're your definitions. Just remember that doing good deeds doesn't build you kharma unless you do them out of goodness (not intentionally trying to build a karma bank roll.
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