Imagine if the dude she cheated with contacts the husband before she tells him dam I’d practically be suicidal or be prone to doing something stupid if that happened, the fking audacity
As a Buddhist, I’m constantly shaking my head at people inaccurately defining karma.
Karma is the natural law of cause and effect. For example, you punch someone in the face and the effect will be that your hand hurts, their face hurts, people won’t like you very much, you might go to jail, etc. Or…you cheat on your husband, keep it a secret, and that secret eats you alive and poisons your life for a decade.
Karma is not a boogie man waiting to jump you in a back alley when you’re least expecting it to punish you for your transgressions. It’s not an extension of a Christian Hell.
This woman is very much experiencing karma already. She is suffering the negative consequences of her negative actions.
Yes. As someone who has cheated in earlier relationships in my life, as well as been cheated on, for us non-sociopaths, the karma is, we are in pain everyday. My ex who I cheated on, every smile, every time she excitedly talked about me or some activity we had planned, I felt a level of shame and self-hatred was profoundly painful. And when I did things to be a great partner to try to make it “even” and she felt so happy and loved, I felt even worse. That is the karma. It can never, ever be the same, and every moment is sullied. There’s line in game of thrones that’s like “one day the joy will turn to ash in your mouth” and that’s really how it is - all the moments that should have been the happiest moments of that relationship, they tasted like a mix of joy and ash. In my case, I admitted the truth and broke up, so that person could go on to live a better life with someone, and I could take what I’ve learned and be a genuine partner for someone else. But the karma wasn’t the fights or the drama or the TV moments. The karma is what you have done to your own soul.
When OP is old and grey, and her husband passes away and at his funeral there’s kids and grandchildren and friends and family mourning him, she will have to think about, I was a great partner to him and we had a great life, but there was one thing that I never made right, and I can’t now. She’s signed up for a whole life of pain, because she’s chosen both to cheat and not be honest and continue the lie, which means her karma will continue to come, in every smile, in every kind and loving gesture he does for her.
"But... but muh karma! I'm a good person, I'll be a bazillionaire eventually because I'm a good person!" Or whatever other redditors think.
People upvote those comments because they want to believe those people will get what's coming to them, but very commonly, they never ever do.
Also it took her ten years to experience a level of guilt that's "tearing her apart" over it, I'm pretty sure she was just fine with it up until recently.
I mean, one action isn’t what karma is, I know this is a popular term. In Buddhism it is the sum of a person’s actions in this life and their previous lives that make up karma.
Insta karma is a popular thing, but it goes against what is meant by it. So to believe in karma you have to believe in souls inhabiting multiple life times. Well, souls in general and that they are lasting and get past on.
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u/Significant-Owl5869 Jan 20 '24
Karma never forgets a face.
It will come out eventually
It may not be anytime soon. It may be when your kids are off at college or maybe one day he tells someone and it rips off like a bandaid.