Social Media Karma
What is the Karmic Wheel? Alas, the Examiner is no more, but the Karmic wheel keeps spinning all the same.
I was at one time contacted by a friend, Phil Butler, to write an article for the Examiner.
Now, Phil and I had known each other for a few years. We met through the original Q & A discussions on LinkedIn.
We have never actually seen each other, in person. He is not even on the same continent as I am. Yet I wrote the article all the same. It was on an article called Food Addictions and Treatments.
Now, did I expect fame and fortune from all this?
Well, I would be lying if I said it wouldn’t be nice. But did I honestly think that empires would rise and fall based upon my one little article?
Of course not.
Karmic Wheel Spinning
But I think it illustrates the point I have made about collaboration. That is, sometimes you just up and do something for someone. And you do it because you just, well, want to do something for someone.
So that ends up a reward unto itself, is it not?
I think the article is the kind of thing that people have got to write about. And it continues to shock me that other writers would not touch the subject matter with a ten-foot pole, as if it would give them the adult equivalent of cooties to talk about addiction.
As if being at all sympathetic with people who are ill would, somehow, mean they were condoning those lifestyle choices or admitting that they, too, were imperfect.
Hey, I will shout it from the rooftops – I’m imperfect!
And if I am not mistaken, the sky did not just come crashing down.
Go forth, and I hope you will collaborate, and do things for others. And then the karmic wheel will turn for you, too.