What Goes Around, Comes Around

What goes around, comes around is a ubiquitous saying that is invoked when one has been wronged. I have found it in every language that I know, and met it in every culture I've seen. I think it's one of those universal Truths.

The essence of it seems to be: the energy you send out (positive or negative) will circle around and return to you eventually. However, I've never seen somebody use it after a positive interaction. It always seems to come after something bad happens.

So when we use it, what we are saying is: YOU harmed me (in some way), and therefore YOUR terrible energy that you put forth into the world will be back- and boy will you ever be sorry.

But what about the terrible things that we have said and done? Well, that's different because, we say, God/the Universe is all forgiving. In fact, we pray that the energy will somehow not make it back to us if we pray hard enough and beg for forgiveness. 

And yet, it's as much a law as gravity. The original English saying is, "you reap what you sow" which illustrates the concept much better. If you plant tomato seeds, for example, you will get tomatoes. Not peppers, not cucumbers- tomatoes. It wouldn't matter how much you prayed for something else, or how much you beat your chest or wailed- tomato seeds yield tomatoes. What you planted is what you will get.

Incidentally, when we plant 1 tomato seed, we don't just get 1 tomato- we get LOTS of them. 

My hope is to be more conscious of the energy I send out (as I'm prone to judging and lashing out more than I want to admit to myself or anyone), and fully embrace and learn from the energy that makes its way back to me- both positive and negative.