Random Musings

While browsing through some facebook links today, I suddenly saw that some friends I have recently made were there as friends of friends of mine from college. And it hit me again, what a small world this is! The concept of karma in buddhism (somewhat similar to karma from hinduism) explains the significance of people we encounter in this life time. People whom we love, form relationships with, even people we hate and want to have nothing to do with. Just think about it: the boss in office we can't get along with, the stuck relationship that just doesn't work, the friend who was once so close but now is distant, the parent with whom we cannot mesh, the teacher in college we hated.....the list can be endless (more you age, as I am finding out, more it grows). So even the person tormenting us the most in this life might be doing it coz we might have done the same to him/her in a past life! Phew, such thinking actually makes the mind boggle a bit. How am I supposed to be responsibl...