Instant Karma

I'm normally a glass-half-full sort of person. It just doesn't occur to me perceive a person or situation in negative light. And I rarely criticise people, even at the point when they roundly deserve it - to the extent that my friends often accuse me of being naiive in my outlook to life.

So I quite took myself by surprise when out of the blue I commented to Jeet the other day: "You know, there was this guy in my highschool class who used to have such a terrible acne problem. It was just awful." I don't know what brought the comment on, or even why I would care at this stage, so many years later. But I said it. And I knew it was mean and snide, but mostly I just said it with gratitude for how I had never had a problem with my facial skin. Jeet just rolled her eyes and warned me I should watch what I say.

And wouldn't you know it. The next morning I woke up with pimples. PimpleS in plural. Gone was the smooth facial skin I used to take for granted - instead I had to make an emergency run to the local pharmacy for a pimple blitzer. Now ofcourse I'm en guard with my Tea Tree oil and anti-acne gel, just in case adolescence is suddenly catching up with me late.

And then yesterday I was laughing at Buppo's (a.k.a. Juan Carlos) laptop, telling him how crap it was. Well, I maintain that any laptop that shuts down arbitrarily and frequently of its own accord merits a "crap" title. But then all of a sudden my laptop shut down and had problems rebooting and said there were complications in the c:/ drive. Oh god oh god oh god I haven't made copies of anything like I always said I'd get around to.

Now I'm not normally very fatalistic, but this retribution is a bit too immediate for my liking. I wonder how much of it is willed by my own sense of guilt, in a cyclical turn of events. Well eitherway, now I know - I've been cursed with instant karma, I'm never going to be mean again.

PS - How great is the new Harry Potter?!! I 've just re-emerged to the surface of reality after two days of being deeply submerged in its darkest depths.