Stop Blaming Your Poor Life Choices on Karma

Karma is too busy for navel-gazers

Many would agree on the driver’s “bad karma” here — Photo by Tanja Cotoaga on Unsplash

I had my fair share of karma talk in the past decade.

As a backpacker and an anthropologist working on social projects in South America and living with hippies, we talked more about karma than our daily groceries.

I must have a huge karma because somebody drank my milk.

I missed the bus twice today! What a bad karma!

I keep dating assh0les, that’s my karma, what did I do in a previous life?

Karma became the jack of all trades. Something to blame our thousands of previous lives’ selves. Something we had to accept as part of our current life experience.

We got it all wrong.

Sometimes shit happens

Being alive and having a life means having “good” and “bad” things happening all the time. Trying to find a connection with our immortal souls or that person we killed when we fought in the Crusades is too simple.

It actually sounds like an excuse not to do our best.

Precisely the opposite of what Buddhism is about.

First of all, their tradition states nothing is good or bad. We shouldn’t tag everything happening around us…