How Karma kicked my butt

I am not a religious person but I do sometimes think about karma and if it exists and if so, how does it play out? Today I got of taste of what it might feel like if it exists and to be frank, I deserved it.

This morning I travelled first from Melbourne airport to Sydney and then from Sydney to middle NSW on a very little plane that was rather bumpy, which has nothing to do with the karma aspect, or does it?

While I was waiting at Melbourne a rather agitated ground crew member put out several calls for 3 passengers that were holding up a flight. I wondered how they could have possibly missed the messages and were they shopping, eating or busy chatting. I hoped they made their flight and wondered what could have delayed them.

You can probably guess what is coming next.

Yes, when I was at Sydney I miss judged the time and thought that the time on my boarding pass was the time that I was due at the gate, which is how it was done in Melbourne. Apparently this was not the case and I was just thinking that I should make my way to the gate when a rather agitated ground crew member called my mobile to find out where I was and if I was still planning on taking the flight because I was holding it up and everyone else was on the bus waiting to go to the plane and hadn't I heard the 3 calls that they put out for me? Ummm, no. I hadn't heard the calls, probably because of the din of the food hall and the fact that I was on my mobile answering missed calls that occurred during my flight from Melbourne.

I raced to the gate, down the stairs and got on the bus to some rather unpleasant stares. I wonder if they thought that I had been shopping, eating or busy chatting. They would have been correct about the eating and chatting. I said nothing. What was there to say?

Was it Karma? I have no idea but I do know that there is no reason to judge others because we never really know the full story of how or why someone did this or didn't do that. I am reminded of a true story that I was told about judging others.

A man is on a long train ride and in his carriage there are two children jumping up and down on seats, running up and down the isle and generally being noisy and disruptive. Their father is on the train with them and appears to do nothing to get them to be a little less boisterous. The man gets off at the station and so does the father with the two children. The father turns to the man and says "I'm really sorry for the disruption caused by my children but you see their mother died last week and they don't know how to cope".

When Karma kicks me next time I will know that I have been judgemental again and need another reminder.

love
Sarah