I do believe in things returning to you. I truly am. I've experienced it myself enough to have confidence in it.
I also can't understand how you can forget so much money at the ATM! Especially since it forces your attention to it by making you remove your card first before releasing the money. That's just bizarre. I'm inclined to believe it's some uberrich bastard who might not even realize the shinies missing! That'd be good for me of course... LOL.
I don't think that hoping in good karma is self-centered. It's just a fact of life, if you want to believe in it. The good you do will return to you, as will the evil. So it's not like I returned the money because it'll bump up my karma count. It's because it was the only right thing to do and that in itself is karma.
I think taking money that's not yours definitely is a lowly thing. It's money you don't deserve, you didn't work for it or do anything for it. And you don't know where it came from. Sure, if it was Bill Gates who dropped it and won't even notice it seems okay to take. But it could also be a single mother of 3 taking this month's groceries money out of the account. You just can't tell. Like I said, I feel better knowing I did the right thing than celebrating finding money that wasn't mine to take.
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I also can't understand how you can forget so much money at the ATM! Especially since it forces your attention to it by making you remove your card first before releasing the money. That's just bizarre. I'm inclined to believe it's some uberrich bastard who might not even realize the shinies missing! That'd be good for me of course... LOL.
I don't think that hoping in good karma is self-centered. It's just a fact of life, if you want to believe in it. The good you do will return to you, as will the evil. So it's not like I returned the money because it'll bump up my karma count. It's because it was the only right thing to do and that in itself is karma.
I think taking money that's not yours definitely is a lowly thing. It's money you don't deserve, you didn't work for it or do anything for it. And you don't know where it came from. Sure, if it was Bill Gates who dropped it and won't even notice it seems okay to take. But it could also be a single mother of 3 taking this month's groceries money out of the account. You just can't tell. Like I said, I feel better knowing I did the right thing than celebrating finding money that wasn't mine to take.