Last year she’d broken up with someone suddenly without really taking his feelings into consideration. She was rude and brusque and thought little of it at the time. Now it was her turn to be on the hurting end of that dynamic. She’d just confessed deep feelings for the man she was dating, and he immediately ended the relationship. Was this her karma? Was it fate? Had she just gotten what was coming to her because of her past behaviors?

Unfortunately, the idea of karma has become deeply buried ...