This I Believe

Richie Heredia
This I Believe
I believe that what goes around comes around. I believe in “karma”.
Karma is a force that evens out the world. Karma is a force that evens out my actions. I see it as threads that bind me to everything. When I think of karma, I think that everything I do has an opposite reaction. It’s almost like an equation even.
When I was younger I was always a cheerful little kid. Although I was cheerful I had of a habit of getting into trouble. I used to mess with people for no reason. One day while I was in school I tripped a friend of mine named Manny because I thought that it would be funny. He fell and I laughed. While in lunch I tripped on a rock on top of the jungle gym. I was running so fast I flew of and fell right of the slide. After that I wondered what such a big rock was doing in such a weird place. It turns out that when I tripped Manny he got really upset. He had to cool off and he went outside very mad to throw things. He threw a rock and it coincidently landed on the jungle gym. That was the rock I had tripped on. If I had never tripped him he would have never thrown the rock that I tripped on.
A negative outcome is only half the part of karma. The other half is a good outcome. On a summer eve I saw a group of people chasing a little dog. They caught him and they were going to take him to the pound. I figured that they would kill him so I told them that it was my dog. I took it home and took care of it. I put lost signs and walked the dog to see if anyone would recognize him but no one did. About a week later I got a call from the owner and I gave him his dog back. The owner was so grateful that he gave me 200 dollars and I felt great that I had saved a dog’s life.
I’m Richie and I believe in karma!!!