{"id":368,"date":"2025-04-08T07:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luunfiltered.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:02:58","slug":"ive-been-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luunfiltered.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/ive-been-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>about&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>karma,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>quite a lot lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Essentially<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wanting karma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to be ready<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at all times,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like my very own<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samurai squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ready to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>flatten&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the enemy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>because I\u2019ve&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>been wronged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>And therein lies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the crux<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For who is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>truly wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what does&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wrong&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>really mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Wrong according to\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>my worldview,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>lens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and values<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>may be very&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>different<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And needs must,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Humans\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are oftentimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>quick to judge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ourselves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by our good intentions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by their perceived<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bad behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet we are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>all in this together<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we are all the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In essence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yet perhaps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>not in doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>So while<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>waiting for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>karma police<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to arrive,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also consider<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the other person\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shoes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the actual<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>human<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>standing in those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Connection\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as a means<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of understanding,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>not a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>means<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to an<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Food for thought?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>~Lu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about&nbsp; karma, quite a lot lately. 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