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What Goes Around Comes Around (Karma)

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Introduction

If one would want to examine one 's self about the meaning of a word or phrase by comparison with what others mean with the word or phrase , one will find confirmation of similarity or change in meaning in relation to time . Given such thesis , this essay intends to validate that same by exploring my own assumptions and beliefs about a certain concept or phrase by , discovering what I believe about and

how those ideas have been formed in me , and exploring outside viewpoints of the using contemporary and /or literary figures , politicians , poets , authors , media images , institutions , history books , etc

Exploration of self : What I think and feel about the phrase What Goes Around Comes Around (Around

As I use the new version of software in the Internet , the computer flashes a message : Paying is a good karma ' The word `karma ' enters into my mind that if there could is good karma , there must be bad karma . Before my encounter of the phrase of good karma , the meaning of the word karma for me was negative that whatever error or mistake one must have done will really come back to haunt one back . The word `karma ' or the phrase `what goes around comes around ' serves as self-evaluation that would result of self-judgment . Sometimes , the self judges very harshly , hence , one could just imagine the tendency that I may have done just to avoid the word `karma ' before it comes to mind that there could some good in it . The experience has therefore brought me into the reality of experiencing the meaning of words into my life that though as one is just a word it carries a message that could turn on or off one 's mood in a day . This is not surprising because I believe that man is created also an emotional being although he is endowed with a rational mind . What is to interesting with emotion is that is what one feels at the moment and most of the sometimes , what one feels is more powerful than what one thinks

In trying therefore to reflect on the meaning of karma in this , I have to admit that words or phrases could change or could have different meaning at different times . Thus the need to have updated dictionaries . Let us apply on how Oxford English Dictionary defines the word `karma ' in two ways . One definition for the word goes this way From the Sanskrit word (meaning 'action ' or 'effect ) used in Hinduism and Buddhism to refer to the principle by which a person 's actions in this world determine the fate that awaits him or her after death . In English the word is sometimes used more loosely to refer to the processes of destiny , and it has sometimes been chosen as a given name with reference to this idea ' Its other definition goes this way : the sum...

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