Instant Karma, not Distant Karma

Is that too much to ask for?

I feel resentful when people do bad things, and others let them get away with it.

There’s a continuum of reactions from people who are aware of what’s been done and do nothing about it, and none of them are good.

Like when someone abuses a child, no one talks about it, and life goes on as if nothing happened. Or the abuse is talked about, but in a way that makes an excuse or gives a rationale for the perpetrator’s actions. Even worse is when the victim is blamed, as if they caused it. Finally, worst of all is when the abuser denies the abuse ever took place, and makes the victim question their own sanity, thereby abusing them a second time.

For instance, the other day I saw someone write about the revelations in the Epstein files about how the current occupant of the Oval Office sexually assaulted little girls with Epstein, giving specific details of what happened: If it were true, they would have brought it up 30 years ago. I mean, they don’t give any details! Anyway, it has nothing to do with me, so why should I care what may or may not have happened to someone else decades ago?

Perhaps the person making this hideous statement in defense of the perpetrator can’t bear to admit he was wrong about his corpulent king.

Whatever the case, the victim has to suffer from what’s happened to them and carry it around like a backpack with a thousand-pound weight inside. This causes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual maladies from which it takes a lifetime to recover.

Maybe even longer.

That’s what I see happening with the Epstein case; I’m furious about it and sickened by it. Not just because it triggers memories of my own abuse, though that’s bad enough, but because a horrible injustice has been done, and is still being done, and people are covering it up.

I’m not God, or the universe, or an organizing force, or any other form of existential energy, so it’s not my job to pass judgment on people for what they do.

But I am a human experiencing a human existence. As such, I can assess what’s right and wrong from my vantage point and advocate for justice.

What happened to Epstein’s victims was, and is still, so very wrong. If there is such a thing as evil, Epstein and all the powerful men and women in his network committed it—both the original wrongdoings and the responses to them. And if there is a hell, these people are going to be there for eternity.

I’m aware of the argument that after we die, every person will have to account for the deeds they committed during their lifetime. Whatever that process entails, they will have their lives reviewed, or they will review them themselves. They’ll make decisions, alone or in conjunction with a spiritual force or energy, about how they will make amends and pay for their wrongdoings.

People who believe in reincarnation think wrongdoers will have to make amends and pay the price by living another life, or by living multiple lives.

That’s fine. But it sounds like distant karma to me. What I want is instant karma.

Before they’re even tried, convicted, and imprisoned, I want these guilty monsters to slip on ice, walk into closed doors, get splashed by cars, break their heels, step into puddles, burn their tongues on scalding hot coffee, and be hit with any other manner of earthly indignity.

That goes for every perpetrator in Epstein’s universe, Epstein himself, and all those who are cravenly covering it up.

This also applies to everyone who ever abused me, in whatever form that abuse took. It also goes for people who pretend those things never happened, say I brought it on myself, or try to minimize it.

I realize mine is not the most spiritually evolved position. But it’s where I am, and it’s what I’m feeling right now.

Every second that perpetrators who are in the Epstein case, or are covering it up, are not in prison is a gross miscarriage of justice.