Karma karma karma comes back to you hard.

It's funny we've all heard the old adages: 

• What you do in the dark comes out in the light.
• It all comes out in the wash.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• You reap what you sow.
• How you get him/her is how you'll lose him/her.

I've heard some really good ones recently:

• If it started shady it will end shady.
• You can't compare platinum to gold dust.  That new person will be like gold dust...all sparkly and pretty.  But once the wind blows, the dust will blow away.

These are things some of us apply to infidelity or just about anything else that we deem immoral.

Let me tell you a story that I just heard over the weekend.  I'm changing the names (well, to be honest I don't actually know the people in this story or their names...) of the people in this story.

There was a man (we'll call him Miles) who was dating a woman, (we'll call her Yvonne).  Miles and Yvonne worked together and had been dating for some time.  Everyone in the workplace knew about their status.  Now here enters Nicole.  Nicole worked with Miles and Yvonne.  One day while Miles and Yvonne were enjoying lunch together, Nicole walked up to Yvonne and stated loudly (for the entire break room to hear): "Enjoy it while you can, because I'm going to take your man." 

I'm sure you can just imagine the gossip surrounding that incident.

According to my sources, not more than three months later, Miles and Nicole were dating.  Those two dated and wound up living together for close to five years.

Nicole had a friend, Imani.  Imani and Nicole worked together and had been friends long before they were co-workers.

Another of their co-workers caught sight of Imani and Miles canoodling in a nearby park.  Of course this person was a friend of Yvonne's and could not wait to return to the office and disclose what she had seen.

Needless to say, Miles and Nicole broke up.  Within four months time Miles and Imani were engaged.  Subsequently the couple married within a year.  Many think that Miles and Imani had been having an affair for years.  Miles and Imani now share a child together.  As for the state of their union, I am not sure.

But let me pick your brains for a while.  If the consensus is if you do something wrong, you pay for it...right?  I guess my question will be three-fold.

Nicole got her just desserts for treating Yvonne and her relationship with Miles so disrespectfully.  I think we can all agree that she should have seen that coming.  She got him dirty, she lost him dirty.  Right?

But what about Miles?  Does he not pay at all?  Does he get away scott free?  Or does he pay in other ways. 

How does karma work?  Do you get back what you've given in the same manner in which you've given it?  Or do you get back at the same magnitude that you've given.

For example, you  come over my house, eat dinner but once you've left I notice that you've taken all of the leftovers and I don't have any food left in my house?  If I do the same to you...that would be you getting back what you've given.  But maybe you don't care about food.  Maybe you have a secret pantry.  So then would karma come back and kick your butt in a different way?  And would it necessarily involve me?  Maybe it will be someone else/some thing else making you pay for your trangression?  And if so, how will you know to attribute it to the wrong you've done me?

Or is there simply no karma, no way of the university correcting wrongs or rewarding rights?

What do you think?