Inspiration and Karma. A wonderful tale.

The bases of this article is pretty much about cosmic forces. Karma at it's finest I guess you could say.

The point being made is the incredible contrast that people have regarding cosmic forces and karma itself. Granted alot of people, myself included, believe in the age old "rule" you get what you give. It truly is a strange force in the universe. If you are a good person and help other's when you can then you almost certainly will have a good life. You may not be rich in a monetary sense however, but think about this: would you rather have a few hundred people at your funeral talking about how great you were in life or would you rather have a priest and a few grave digger and that's it. Remember how Scrooge was buried in his vision with the spirits?

What we get out of life is truly based on what we do and how we do it. What we get can even rival our friends and family at times or it could be the total opposite.

The story line is about a homeless man living on the the streets of Hollywood. It is a sad story and also a story of true human kindness, odd, seeing as it happen's in Hollywood. Now, I don't mean to judge the location, I just always here and read and see bad things come out of most major cities in North America. Anyway, the man would always move from his spot if there was a colder person going by, he was living quite literally on a subway grate. The reason was that the heat from the subway passing always kept the spot warm and being close to a subway entrance he had a better chance of getting change from passerby's.

One day a woman was being very rude to him and laughing at him and calling him names etc, he just sat there and took it. After she got tired of yelling at him for no reason, he looked at her through his old and worn eyes and he smiled and asked her if she needed someone to talk to and if she would like to have a coffee with him. Imagine. A homeless man asking a young, successful woman if he could help her. I was waiting for the woman to smack him. It seemed that he was about to get what he deserved to most people, a woman laughing at him and walking away. At least that is what I thought was going to happen.

Here is where Karma and cosmic forces show up. She agreed to not only coffe, but to lunch and she would buy as she had been so rude and wanted to apologize for her behaviour. So, off they went.


During lunch the young woman got up the courage to ask the man how he came to be in the state he was in, homeless and lost. He smiled and said he just woke up one day and went for a walk, he turned left and never looked back. He smiled and said it reminded him of a song. He didn't say which one unfortunately. He went on to tell her he had a wife and two children, a son and a daughter. He had pictures of them in his wallet, which was probably older than she was. He hadn't seen either of them or his estranged wife in so many years that he didn't really remember how long it had been. Then he became very quite and sullen for a few minutes. He asked her what she was doing in the city, where she worked, what she did. The usual questions you ask of a new found friend. She told him she was going to night school and was working as a waitress a few years back to put herself through law school. She had recently passed the bar and was now on vacation. She started to tear up and told the old man that she was looking for her father. She had been asking questions at homeless shelter's, churches, local organization's. She had even put up a little website with his personal information and the last photograph she had of him. She told the old man how much she wished it was him, her new friend.

The show used that climatic music and appropriate pauses while she had finished her story that you just hoped and prayed he was indeed her real father. He wasn't. They spoke for awhile longer and he told her that if she would like he would be her fatherly friend until she found her actual real one. With that she broke down in tears. He took her hand and told her it was alright and that everything would work out, if she just believed.

She never did find her real father, but she gained one. She started to help homeless folks throughout the nation and she became quite the advocate for human right's. The old man became her right hand man and soon found himself off the street's living a normal life. He had said it was a hard and strange transition for him, being homeless so long he had to re-adjust to living in warmth and eating regularly. It's amazing what we take for granted. It's amazing how life can change in the blink of an eye.

What you get in life really can be defined by our actions. What you get depends on what you give.

By simply being nice to someone, being a shoulder to cry on, a friendly ear.

What you get depends on how you live.

How do you live?