Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there to serve some sort of purpose. Maybe teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. Things may happen to you at the time that may seem HORRIBLE, PAINFUL and UNFAIR, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles you would never realize your potential, strength, will power or heart. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or means of luck. Illness,love,lost moments and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, life would be like a smoothly paved straight flat road to nowhere safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless. The successes and downfalls that you experience will create who you are...

Karma: A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling. Hinduism & Buddhism. The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny. Karma is not something you can control, something you can turn on or off. It's not what you do, it's who you are. Karma extends throughout our entire life experience.

If you are pleasant and give off positive energy, others will pick up on that, and feed off that.If you`re a grouch who is always upset, always complaining, always wishing for something to be different, be better. Then you will for the rest of your life find yourself in situations that could be different, be better.You will never be satisfied, just frustrated and angry ..Negativity attracts negativity. Positivist attracts positivist. Those who get the most out of life are not the ones who are the luckiest, or the smartest, or the bravest, or the strongest. Those who seem to have life under control are the ones who won't let one situation or one person get them down and take the smile from their face, sincerity from their heart. Changing your karma, is simply a matter of changing your mind-set, making a vow to yourself that you`re going to be Optimistic, Hopeful, Cheerful, Confident and Open to a new way of thinking.And perhaps & more importantly, it's the understanding that this change is not going to be the next week, or the next time you meet someone you want to impress with your charm and charisma, but it's going to be the new you.If you give it a try, you might just find that the glass is indeed half full.....