Project 1 "This I Beleive" 2nd Draft

Cassie Lyne
English 11 A12
9/27/2009
Project 1: This I Belive-2nd Draft

Have you ever heard the phrase “Nice guys finish last”? I for one do not think this is true at all. I believe in Karma, or in other words “What goes around comes around”. I believe that good things happen to good people who deserve them, and no matter what you do wrong, or how serious it might be it will still come back to affect you negatively in the end.

Karma is something I think everyone should consider in everyday life. In general, if you treat people with kindness and respect it is more likely that you will receive kindness and respect in return. Sometimes you are forced to be kind even if you don’t want to be. For Example, I work as a waitress about three nights a week. It is my job to give my customers the service, and friendliness they deserve. This gives the restaurant I work for a good name, and hopefully in the end I will get a good tip. Even if I am having a bad day, or if I am simply not the mood it is still my job to not let my mood show and give good service to my customers. This in my opinion is a good example of karma because if I was rude, and did not give my tables the attention and service they needed then in return I wouldn’t make any money. However, karma is not exactly about doing something to receive a reward of prize in return.

In the dictionary Karma is explained as “The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.” Karma is also related with fate. I believe in karma as not knowing how something will eventually affect you in the end. A very close friend of mine has been in a relationship for almost two years. At first the two were very happy, one night she made a huge mistake while partying with her friends and others in a college dorm. She ended up cheating on her boyfriend, and never told him about it. No matter how awful or guilty she felt she could not bring herself to tell her boyfriend because she knew it would put an end to her relationship. As selfish as this may seem she knew he would never find out and this became just a part of her past that she no longer considered “a big deal”. She is now burdened with a huge problem in her relationship because it is almost as if her boyfriend has pushed himself away from her. She claims he no longer puts his all into their relationship and seems to put everything else before her, and this causes the couple to fight constantly. She knows he still does not know anything about what happened that night, and she has no idea why he recently started acting this way. In my opinion this is a perfect example of karma.

My friend was aware that what she did was very wrong but still, she choose not to come clean thinking everything would be okay. Now consequently her relationship is falling apart. So ultimately in the end it almost seems as if it was fate for their relationship to not work out. Karma can affect you everyday life, or affect you seriously in the long run. No matter which way I am a strong believer in karma, and I think everyone should always consider their actions, and how it can affect others or later affect themselves.