I can't imagine how I gave that impression. Could you tell me?
It is entirely incorrect, in any case! Really. Not only am I not in despair, I'm not even in a bad mood! Not even a teeny bit cranky! My daughter does not suffer, years have passed, and time heals. I am not, in fact, "dealing with" this situation any more at all. I have accepted it. There is sadness when I am with her, and always will be. This is natural and I accept that, too.
I also am aware that I am in the top one per cent of the top one percent of the blessed in this world. If you think my attitude toward the concept of karma is because I have a retarded child, you are entirely wrong. I used that fact in my life as a personally witnessed example of an afflicted innocent. Through my daughter, I know other, worse off, afflicted innocents, and I mentioned at least one of them. I mentioned the arsenic wells in Bangladesh also.
I have many friends, of whom the majority by a long shot feel as I do about such notions. One doesn't have to be despairing or bitter to look at such varieties of mysticism as that represented by the karma proposition as I do! Heavens, Sam, where did that come from? (To tell you the truth, I have a suspicion it wasn't from a concerned place. Am I wrong about this?)
The tone of the post to which you responded was light. But it made a specific point, or raised a specific question about your group karma notion, which you did not address at all. |
