On Karma

There's this train of thought people like to have about if someone refuses to help them (usually financially), that the person might need their (the borrower's) help in the future.

They think: "if you need my help in the future, I'm not going to help you."

Maka na nụ anyị nọ secondary or university? Heck even in school then, people like to be like, if you don't tell answer in the hall, you'd need the help.

Well I wasn't going to need any dullard's help in the hall before, no? There's nothing to glean from them.

For the money, Nollywood has brainwashed a shit load of people... Falling from grace to grass. lol

Actually in the real world, the more ventures you have undertaken and have failed, the more connections you get because people see you as "having skin in the game."

And certainly, the previous borrower can get more successful, no disputing that. But so is the other person that'd already had their money. They will more likely than not, get even more successful. It's a capitalism world baby, the rich never stop getting richer and more influential.

So why are you having future thoughts about them getting a misfortune. Basking in schadenfreude that someone will have harm befall them and they would ask you for help? Onye ka Ị bụ? People need to get a life.

There is no cosmic equaliser anywhere. Karma ain't real. Go ask politicians destroying this country while their kids are gallivanting abroad

Now, you would think,
"Eeh, some of them have effeminate queer kids. Karmaaaa!!!"

And so? Those kids are living in countries that wouldn't prosecute them cos of their sexuality. They'd actually get married and live happily ever after. They won't get 14 years in prison. Nope, they won't.

"Eeh, the kids get drug addicted, Karmaaaaaa!!!"

Same with them kids on Oshodi and Ikeja bridge.

Actually no, the rich kids have it better even with the drug addiction.

The difference is their kids will actually go to topclass mental facilities and programmes and get help, while them poor kids would overdose, die and will be left on the streets.

I've seen about 4 dead bodies on these streets of Lagos since I came here. Just left to rot and I don't even go out that often.

Let me not even pivot into a lecture of the rich kids' addiction being more from a nurture misstep than Karma doing anything. We give that babe (read Karma) more points than she deserves. She's a lazy ass phenomenon.

My own is to continue bursting the bubble. I live with a very grey world mindset, ain't nothing fully white and black in this treacherous world. The earlier you come to that realisation, the more you bend down, face reality and join the game.