I just learned of this from one of my relatives yesterday. The more I think about it, the more I can dive into its meaning and appreciate its truthfulness.

On the term Karma, I don’t need to get complicated on its origin from Hindu religion, because it is nothing more than a common sense as we have many similar sayings to this effect. e.g. Sow beans, reap beans; Sow melons, reap melons. Or, you make your bed and so you lie in it.

To be sure, this is a neutral term, not a curse or a moral judgement whatsoever. Kindness yields good return while evil will eventually get what it deserves, according to the universal principle of cause and effect. Our actions, both good and bad, will visit us in the future, inescapably.

As parents, the way we treat others will come back to us in the manner of how our children will treat us. It is like a boomeranging effect — the arrow we shoot out will come back to us, never missing its target. One step further, if your children mistreat you, examine yourself for the answer.

We only need to remember the words from the song sang by Maria in Sound of Music,
“Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good.”

Indeed, somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something really good.