This I Believe.

I believe in Karma. I believe in it not only cause I've seen things happen to other people before, but with my own personal experiences too. I believe everyone will get their Karma sooner or later. Whether it happens within a month, or 20 years, it will catch up to you. Just trust me when I say this, because this is how I know...

When I was 12 I was not a very good person. All throughout grade school I was a good kid, rarely did anything wrong, my grades were good, and so on. But as soon as I hit the 6th grade things changed, not only with school but behaviors at home also.

I started off the year keeping up with my homework, and being a good student, but a couple months later things were not the same at all. I didn't like hanging out with the people in my own grade, so I started hanging out with the 8th graders, who I thought were the coolest people ever. I realize now that a lot of them were nothing but bad influences, but I didn't have the brains to realize it back then. But of course I felt like I had to do what I had to do to fit in.

Most of them were making poor choices, so I thought if I did the things that they were doing it would make me cool too. It was towards the end of the day, and I was in gym class. I went back in the locker room, and I saw someones backpack, so I opened it and there was an I-pod and a cell phone. I just took the cell phone and left the I-pod so that it wasn't so suspicious. Then I went out to my locker and put the phone in there, and headed back to gym class.

After the class was over, the girl didn't seem to notice anything was missing. That was the last period of the day, so after that class was out I bolted to my locker and grabbed my things and that phone. When I met up with the "cool kids" I told them what I did, and they were proud of me. I know that sounds kind of cheesy, but its the truth. Eventually I felt bad though, because how would I like it if someone stole my phone? I would not like it at all. I didn't know the girl on a personal level, but I was sort of acquaintances with her. She came to school sad and angry because obviously her phone was stolen. Eventually the fun was over because her mom called and had it shut off. It also made me feel bad because she got into a lot of trouble by her mom for "losing" her phone. So all in all I regretted taking her phone.

And then Karma struck me in the butt this weekend. The whole weekend I was staying with my friend Katrina. On Friday night we had plans to go to a dance. We were there for a good amount of time. Then when we got back to her house we just hung out and relaxed cause we were tired. Eventually I passed out on her floor cause I was extremely tired.

Then early the next morning I was woken up from loud noises, so I went into Katrina's room and slept some more on her bed. A couple hours later she had her friend come over to pick something up that she had left there. I woke up and went back out to the living room. When I went to bed I had my phone charging on a little table out in her living room. But when I went back out there the phone was gone, along with the charger. I automatically assumed that one of her kids could have accidentally put it somewhere, so it wasn't that big of a deal to me.

Then as time passed we looked through her entire house, and it was nowhere to be found. Katrina realized that one of her spray bottles was missing, and my Paris Hilton perfume was also gone. We came to the conclusion that the babysitter that she trusted and thought was a friend had stolen my phone, perfume, and her spray. And if you think about it, what I did to that girl in the 6th grade was happening to me. That was well over 5 years ago, but it still caught up to me.

And that is why I strongly believe in Karma.