Karma

Karma is not intended to be a punishment but it kind of works out that way. 

The old adage that good guys finish last is wrong.  Good guys really do finish first but you have to continually work at it.  The good guys who finish last are those guys who get tired of all the work and opt for a shortcut.  To be a good guy you have to be able to do a couple of things the vast majority of the time.

You have to keep being a good guy when good things are not happening to you.  Everyone wants the good guy to win.  Most people who see that you are a genuinely a good guy will bend over backwards to help you out.  Every breathing soul is drawn to something that is good and positive.

You also need to have the capacity to do a good thing for a person who is trying to be a good guy but just isn't managing to do so.  Always remember the trained professional rule tho.  There are a lot of things you just can fix. 

It is never heroic to go down with a boat that someone else is in the process of sinking.

It is hard when those good things are not happening to not be hypersensitive.  A lot of stuff that that normally rolls right off your back will accumulate there.  Shitty people and ill tempers are drawn to each other almost as powerfully as good things are.  Always remember the very first thing to be lost in crappy situations is any sense of right or wrong.  You will never win a shit throwing contest.

So that whole reap what you sow thing is pretty close to being right on the  money.  It really does work out that what you put out, you get back in the same amount. 

Be the good guy and finish first.

Love Dad