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BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES
You can call it Karma, you can call it the Golden Rule, you can even call it late for dinner, but it will be on your plate eventually.
We usually think of consequences as something negative that happens. And there is truth in that. As mentioned yesterday, a bad and mean-spirited attitude towards life not only makes the present miserable for yourself and others, but you are also more likely to die earlier, much earlier, than someone with a positive attitude.
But it’s also true that there are good consequences. Feeling and acting on the virtues of love, kindness, mercy, compassion, fortitude, perseverance, sympathy, discipline, giving, and more return good consequences.
I am not saying life is fair and if you are ‘nice’, only nice things will happen to you. That is not true. But if you are ‘nice’ then no matter WHAT happens to you, you always get to be with a nice person. You always get to have that love, kindness and caring inside yourself. That’s a pretty good consequence to your behavior if you ask me.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish author
One year ago today at The Napkin Dad Daily – The World Becomes How You Look At It