Since moving I've found karma a lot. A woman I met volunteering at the shelter and whom I've become friends with used to work with my cousin. Funny we were talking and she said "oh I used to work so and so". I laughed and said so did my cousin awhile ago. I showed her a picture and she said "Hey I know her." Turns out to be a smaller world than one would think.
Anyway recently I met a woman I went to elementary and middle school with at my DK1 t ball practice. Her kid plays on the same team. We got to talking and she said "oh we just moved here." I said from where and it turns out we went to 2nd to 8th grade. She then moved out of state and I stayed put. She sent me a picture of us on neighboring pages in the year book! OMG it was crazy. We moved to different states years later and meet.
She didn't recognize me and I didn't recognize her but it was weird. I felt bad because she said she'd found it really difficult being an "outsider" moving into a small town and fitting in. She said she was teased and it hard. I apologized in case I ever did anything terrible (I honestly don't remember her and seeing the picture looks familiar but we weren't friends). I hope that I wasn't terrible in anyway. It's weird how when you get older you don't recall being a terrible kid but it's possible that you were.
Anyway that's my karma story. I hope that if I did do anything "bullying" that giving a sincere apology might help my karma. Do you have any weird karma stories?
karma happens
April 5th, 2016 at 08:51 pm
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April 5th, 2016 at 11:08 pm 1459897718
My husband has this weird thing where he can not go *anywhere* without running into someone he knows. & he is not a social person! This really freaked me out more when we moved to current city. He commuted to old city/job for a year and then stayed home with kids. I met far more people through my job. So I'd introduce him to someone once and then he'd run into *those* people. ??? (So it just got kind of ridiculously funny for a time. These days he meets tons of people and it's less weird. I mean between having a job now and volunteering in several capacities). Anyway, the latest was when we were in Hawaii I was swimming in the ocean. I come out of the water and he is sitting and talking to some older couple. Which is something he'd probably never do if they were strangers. I said, "Let me guess. Someone you already know." Yes, of course. Happens all the time.
Our next door neighbor also went to the same high school as dh. It's not that unusual given how many people have re-located to our city. BUT, we did move from a million+ person city to another million+ person city. Really, what are the odds? (Different times, so no karma to worry about. Ha!)
April 5th, 2016 at 11:18 pm 1459898293
April 6th, 2016 at 12:55 am 1459904140
Another one -- at a conference in San Diego, I sat down to breakfast and met the brother of the best man at my wedding -- which took place in Michigan, twenty years before!
And another -- at my last job, the President turned out to be an old college friend of my current man friend -- and their wives were roommates! (Man friend is a widower.) If that wasn't weird enough, this same President has co-authored books with an old boyfriend of mine, from way back. Just weird!
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