my karma off topic of everything but asking

[green_ninja_mackdaddy]

Ok, I know this is not really dealing with what's been talked about here and it's not even dealing with the south but I had no clue really where to put this since it didn't deal with movies or tv or politics or sports or anything else other than me.
But here's what I got. Bad karma.
I've been having some bad luck these last two months. Nothing serious, as of yet but it's slowly building and I don't know why. Like tonight, I've been wanting to listen to radio to call in for a contest for some concert tickets. Been meaning to do it all week but either been busy at the time or I just forgot. Well tonight I set alarm on my cell cause I knew I would be home to listen. It goes off and I spend nearly 20 minutes having to find a new attenna to use and once I did that I had to get the station in. If finally comes in and I sit to listen. The dj comes on and says, well sorry I don't have anything to give away tonight, the concert tickets we did have was all given out at the beginning of the week. Then there was the Superman t shirt I won that I didn't see the email that said I had to respond to it to get my shirt and I had until July 16 to do it. When did I see the email? Last night. Those are just a hint of the little things that has been going wrong. The worse so far is a friend has stopped talking to me and the last time I saw her she gave me the cold shoulder and the friend that was with me that night said when we walked off, what the hell did I do to piss her off so bad. Well, the last time I saw her before that time the day went great, it was a normal day between us and then she goes home, says bye like nothing was wrong, and then that. I have another friend that has been talking to me but when I ask lets get together it's either well I can't or I get stood up.
So, my question is this. I have done something to have my karma be doing this to me. I don't know what it is, I have a idea but not sure, like maybe, but I want to know if any of you would know how I could cleanse my karma without knowing what it is that I did?

[Peter Oberth]

Ok, I know this is not really dealing with what's been talked about here and it's not even dealing with the south but I had no clue really where to put this since it didn't deal with movies or tv or politics or sports or anything else other than me.
But here's what I got. Bad karma.
I've been having some bad luck these last two months. Nothing serious, as of yet but it's slowly building and I don't know why. Like tonight, I've been wanting to listen to radio to call in for a contest for some concert tickets. Been meaning to do it all week but either been busy at the time or I just forgot. Well tonight I set alarm on my cell cause I knew I would be home to listen. It goes off and I spend nearly 20 minutes having to find a new attenna to use and once I did that I had to get the station in. If finally comes in and I sit to listen. The dj comes on and says, well sorry I don't have anything to give away tonight, the concert tickets we did have was all given out at the beginning of the week. Then there was the Superman t shirt I won that I didn't see the email that said I had to respond to it to get my shirt and I had until July 16 to do it. When did I see the email? Last night. Those are just a hint of the little things that has been going wrong. The worse so far is a friend has stopped talking to me and the last time I saw her she gave me the cold shoulder and the friend that was with me that night said when we walked off, what the hell did I do to piss her off so bad. Well, the last time I saw her before that time the day went great, it was a normal day between us and then she goes home, says bye like nothing was wrong, and then that. I have another friend that has been talking to me but when I ask lets get together it's either well I can't or I get stood up.
So, my question is this. I have done something to have my karma be doing this to me. I don't know what it is, I have a idea but not sure, like maybe, but I want to know if any of you would know how I could cleanse my karma without knowing what it is that I did?

I believe in karma but I am also a skeptic (I know, hypocritcal). But, I think a lot of "bad luck" has to do with a mental state. If you believe or are led to believe that you are "cursed" or have bad karma, then your mind will trick you into that and you will begin stumbling or forgetting things, causing you to get hurt or bypass important things. Either that or your mind will only pick out the bad things that are happening, not remembering the good things, even if they are small, like getting fresh fries at McDonalds, catching your favorite movie on TV when it just starts, finding money in an old pair of jeans, etc. Those things don't sound like GREAT things, but no on is meant to win the lottery every day.

As for the bad luck? The Superman T-Shirt, a simple mistake. Your friend giving you the cold shoulder? She could be going through a rough time and you are mistaking her persona for her being upset with you. The broken radio antenna? It was bound to happen eventally. Better now than when they are giving away something bigger and better that you would want more.

Just my thoughts, take it or leave it :)

[shereekachu]

I'm a firm believer in cycles. We go through times where all that seems to happen are bad things. But then we go through spurts of good luck too. You just gotta ride through the bad like a crashing curl and come out clean on the other side. Even if you take a dive just get back up and ready for the next wave.

And dude - just be greatful you don't live in a place where bombs and missles are being dropped on your and around your house. Now THAT would be bad kharma and would really suck.

Talk to your friend - don't assume anything. Peter's right, she may be going through something.

Tickets come to those who make sure their radios work ahead of time (so says Confus-us).

And one last thing - trust me on this one - worse things WILL happen to you. Its life. And DO NOT go messin with no juju doc to fix it. They just take your money and that just makes their cash kharma better. ;)

[colacoke]

I also think that bad luck/good luck is a state of mind.
You woke up and are breathing which is a good thing but you are not focused on it becuase you are focusing on the bumps in the road. You were able to log in to SF and that is a good thing but you posted on the not good things happening in your life. Focus on the good things and learn from everything that happens.

[green_ninja_mackdaddy]

Oh I do focus and remember the good things. It's one of my things. I'm nearly always positive, not the happy freaky way but I'm always saying, you think good thoughts and good things happen. My friend constently tell me that I'm so easy to please and small things make me happy. That's cause I can see the joy in just having a towel to play with or sitting in line waiting for the screening while playing my PSP.
But, what I'm saying is that my karma has a black splotch on it. My friend not talking and giving cold shoulder cause haveing a bad day, well it's been a month. I have bad days and at times a bad week where I might not want to talk to people. But when was it that you was having one where you didn't talk to your friend for a month? The radio thing, it wasn't the thing being broken. I'm use to that, it's nothing. What I was saying was that each night, monday to friday they have a contest during the 11 o'clock hour. He didn't say someone had already won and my radio didn't go out and I missed it. He came on and said, sorry we don't have anything to give away tonight cause all the concert tickets was given away at the beginning of the week. I've done the radio promotions thing, ask Blupun, I know they don't just give them away early. They have each give away set up in a way with the prizes set to the side in their own place. I know there is always a first for everything but in the past years that I've listened to this station for that contest during that hour, I've never heard that happen before.
What I'm saying is that what you do reflects on certain things that can impact your life. That in the past 2 months I have done something that I should not have done and in doing it normal things that would go good for me are now going bad. Yes I have lots of good and great things happening to me every day but there's that little something that has my karma on the whack. My center is off.
I'm just trying to figure out how I can cleanse my karma of this black spot. I just want to get it back to the even level before it snowballs.

[garcia5]

I believe that nothing happens on accident. If you lose a friend or gain a friend its simply a stepping stone to getting you where you need to be. A lot of people have asked me if I believe in fate so much why don't I just stop making decisions and let fate decide everything. I tell them that the things we do determine how we get to the end of our path, not when we get there. If your friend is pissed at you apologize, make a real effort to communicate with her. If you lose her as a friend theres nothing more you can do about it but chalk it up to a lesson learned. Maybe you did something to piss her off. Maybe she is just the kind of person that isn't really a friend untill they benifit from you. Its really all just specualtion on my part. But the way we live our lives definitly decides how easy or difficult our journy will be. I live by the "Treat others as you'd like to be treated" rule and it hasn't failed me yet.

[colacoke]

If all this positive thinking and feel good talk fails there is always TEQUILA.
Works for me.

[green_ninja_mackdaddy]

Well you have a good idea there Cola but if I have even a sip of it or the whole bottle with the worm, I end up the next day feeling like I was beat, ran over, and yelled at with bullhorn for 10 years. So I stay away from the stuff and stick with good old friends Jim and Jack.
As for my karma this week. Still have yet to talk to friend, plus another one hasn't talked to me since saturday, and this is odd considering we talked every day at least once a day for the past 4 months. Had an interview yesterday that went excellent but because of this one thing I won't be able to get it.
Also yesterday I got a call from another job that would be for the weekend. It was one of those one door closes another opens. So when talking on the phone yesterday I told him I could come in around 3 yesterday and he said no why don't you make it for tomorrow, which was today. I told him that I had to do my freelance thing until 3 but I would leave right from that and get up there after 3 and he said fine. So today I do my thing and get out about ten till 3 and was driving up there when at 3:17 I get a call and it's him saying I thought we had an appointment at 3. Now I didn't want to tell the man that was going to hire me that he was wrong that we never set an exact time that we had agreed that I would be there after 3. So I just said that I was sorry and would be there. When he was talking to me he told me that this job was for someone that is reliable, punctual, and gets there on time. Now considering that in 3 years of going to school I was late only once and I never missed one day, getting to one of the first interviews for what is going to be my career late is not a good sign to me.
Anyways, at least I got a movie screening tomorrow.