Karma

What's your Karma? Do you believe in Karma?

I believe in it more and more. There are different believe systems of Karma, mine is pretty simple...

"What Comes Around Goes Around." And "Action Breeds Action."

For instance, a friend just spent 90 minutes on the phone with me, helping me talk about some revision notes from my editor. That's 90 minutes out of her writing time. Why? Hopefully because I do it for her. But I don't do it so that I can get a "return," I do it because I love her work, admire her talent and love to talk about writing.

Last weekend, another friend, went over an entire proposal for me. Just because I asked her to. It's a big deal to me. I thanked her repeatedly. She said I've done it for her, so she was happy to do it. But guess what? When I looked at her stuff, I wanted to do it! I wasn't looking for a return.

I've also NOT done things I wish I had. With my first book, I donated books, and critiques, etc to every charity thing that came around. Somewhere along the line I stopped. I'm not sure why, probably exhaustion. It just dawned on me last night when I was cleaning out some old files and found all the stuff I used to do. I should do more--not for Karma but because I want to.

So I'd say my Karma can use a little work, and that Karma really is a work in progress anyway. Overall, I'm probably not too bad on the Karma scale.

What about you?