Shopping Day

The other day I was shopping in one of those huge mega market type shopping centers. I love the setup. You get grocery, banking, hair care, in fact just about anything you want all under one roof. All this material prosperity is abundant, yet it strikes me as rather strange only about one person out of ten appear happy. The rest of the people looked like they were about to sit on an electric chair and drive their astral body away from their physical body forever.


I bought myself a coffee, in the food court, sat down, to sip it slowly. I was enjoying my own company, and coffee, when a man in his senior years, say around seventy years of age, sat next to me.


“Hello,” I said,”What are you doing today?” I asked.
“Me and the wife shopping,” he replied in a thick European accent.

“Good on you,” I said,”You’ve worked hard all your life and now in your senior years deserve to have not a care in the world.” A look of sadness swept over his face.

“This country,” he went on,”The kids no look after the parents. They all leave, and the poor parents are left to fend for themselves in their old age,” he said as he looked at me with despair.

“I understand,” I said. I wanted to say more but could not. For this gentleman it was too late for him.



Karma and Drama

Metaphysical class 101 says that one such universal law is how you treat others and the situations you make others endure, the same will be returned to you. Well, maybe its not all his fault, and everyone has lessons to learn, but the fact is, as he stated to me, this man is alone and his children couldn’t care less.


Maybe he did the same thing to his parents. Maybe not. But one way to get out of a feeling of loneliness is to become a friend for others. Keep them company. You have to give, then you receive, and you will cease being lonely.



A Sad Ending

I was desperately wanting to break into one of my philosophical dialogues with this lonely senior gentleman but my time was up and I had to leave. Karma and being lonely are linked.