Karma Points: is it all a numbers game?
I’ve often wondered if there is indeed a hierarchy of karma points. A cleverly fashioned system that allocates a certain number of karma points for a particular good deed done or deducts points (adding bad karma value) for being an idiot, thoughtless or just plain mean. Does returning a shopping cart compare in value to walking an old lady across the street? What about running into a burning building to rescue a child vs. donating an organ to a mother of four. Let’s say remembering to call your grandfather on his birthday vs. thoughtfully sending him that Hallmark card? That’s a close one. Still, points are points. Is it all a numbers game?
I’ve always been quite circumspect about killing bugs ~ unless, of course, they happened to disgust me as cockroaches are want to do. Even so, I have spent what amounts to an enormous amount of time capturing insects, yes even cockroaches, and returning them to the wild (i.e. front yard).
The absence of central air and today’s rising temperatures brought the value of a life into focus. The adorable bumble bee, all dress up in his halloween costume inspired outfit, buzz, buzz, buzzing about the window trying to his darndest to escape, was one of the lucky ones. The mosquito, however, was not. So does saving the bumble bee negate any bad karma I may suffer as a result of the “unfortunate mosquitos incident”?
