Lessons In Karma

 Most times karma is very blunt and other times it sneaks up on you and you have no idea why "that" happen to you. I love how the universe seems to get a laugh out of paying us back for the small things that we over look while we do them, because we didn't think those actions were bad at the time we did them. 

My son recently had an encounter of this type that; though probably didn't feel so great to him, was one of those karma encounters the universe probably found amusing and adequate pay back for his actions. 

It all started on a summer day when the fly's were at a particular high for the area of New Mexico that we live and every time we opened the door another darn fly would bug on in and the cats weren't able to keep up on the prowl.

 Being that you are to harm none under our law; that includes the pesky flies however frustrating they might be, my oldest son decided to catch one. Which was talented at best because those bugs are hard to catch; instead of taking it out side and getting it out of the house, he decided that he would feed it to his cat but not before he rendered it unable to fly. 

I happened to catch what he was doing and went over and asked him what the heck he was doing? He told me that he caught a fly and was gonna give it to his cat. I asked him why he didn't just let the cat catch the fly himself? He told me that he thought it was fun to try and catch them. I told him that the cat could handle catching the flies on his own.

 When I looked at the fly he was trying to feed the cat, I realized it had no wings and asked my son where his wings went. He told me that he pulled them off. "Why would you pull off the wings" I asked. He responded with a priceless kid response, "because I didn't want it to fly away after I caught it for my cat". I told him that catching flies and letting them go outside was fine and explained that he basically tortured the fly by pulling out its wings because it needed those to fly and at least have a chance to survive another day uncaught. I asked him if pulling the wings off of a fly and trying to feed it to his cat was considered harming something. He responded that it was a bug and its shouldn't count. I told him that it counts and though it was a fly it's still alive and deserves a chance to stay that way. 

He then asked me why the cat could catch and kill the flies and he couldn't? I told him it was because its was part of the cats job to eat things to survive. I explained that if a cat didn't have a home where it was fed like at our house every day, then the cat would have to kill what it needed to eat and flies would be on that list. I told him we buy our food at the store, but if we didn't have a store then we would hunt but it's not OK to hunt for fun.

Of course the universe got a good look at how he handled the fly and decided that though mom talked about it with him he still needed to know exactly how that fly might have felt having its wings torn off, so he would think before he tried to do that again.

Later that day we all decided to go out to the park down the way from our house on our bikes for some fun and exercise. 

While we were at the park my son's were riding around the running path in the park over and over and my oldest decided to spin his head around and try to talk to his step dad while he was still riding his bike, but not looking where he was going. 

You can bet this is were the universe set its target for fly karma. 

Well while he was looking behind him he didn't notice that the iron fence that surrounded the park was a bit to close for him to avoid and when he turned his head back to see where he was heading, it was already to late and he smacked wheel first, right into that unforgiving fence and landed on the ground. Now he's totally ok, was a little banged up and the bike got most of the damage and the fence got a good gash chipped out of the paint but as soon as he got up and wiped off his tears he realized that he got what he did because of that fly he messed with earlier. 

I told him karma is always around and that he should be mindful of all living things so this doesn't happen again. Since then the flies still bug us all but he hasn't caught or tortured another fly.

I don't know how many people pay attention to how or why they received whatever karma they are dealing with but think about it, because it could be something very small and simple and easy to ovoid in the future. Remember don't think you won't pay for what you decide to do because karma always comes around to bite you when your not looking and will most likely show up when you don't want your life to be messed up. So when you do realize that karma is what your experiencing, try to link your actions that day and see where you might have created your universal pay back, apologies and don't do the same thing twice.