Karma: This I believe, What Goes Around, Comes Around - Martha Macias

Martha Macias is a young girl with many dreams and hopes of making them all come true.

Karma: This I believe, What Goes Around, Comes Around

I started believing in karma in high school. Every time something bad would happen to me, my friends would always tell me not to worry about it because karma would take care of it. I never really understood how karma worked until I started dating Edgar. Edgar was a football player, and many girls liked him but one in particular, Maddie, the girl that Edgar had previously dated .
Everything was going good in our relationship until Maddie found out. It had only been a month or two since we started dating and Maddie was already making my life a living hell. I tried to talk to Edgar about it, but he would always tell me that I was over reacting and just being jealous, and that Maddie was one of his friends and a good girl that would not be mean to any one for no reason. But what he didn’t know was that Maddie would harass me and send me emails trying to upset me. All Maddie wanted to do was cause arguments between me and Edgar.
I didn’t know what to do, or how to handle the situation, the only thing I could think of was to tell Edgar, but that didn’t seem to work. Everyone around me would tell me to try to ignore Maddie, that if I did I would be the “bigger person,” but it was hard for me to just ignore it all. Months went on with me dealing with Maddie’s harassment and Edgar’s attitude towards it. Until I could not take it anymore, especially since Edgar would always take Maddie’s side. He always said how Maddie was one of his very good friends and that he would not chose me over Maddie. And Maddie and I had to learn to be friends.
It had been five months of me dealing with this until she ended the relationship. It turned out that Maddie did not even want to be with Edgar, but she just did not want to see Edgar and I together. Maddie was determined to separate us and make us unhappy. Maddie did everything in her power to reach her goal, and she did.
I was not even depressed about the break up; I felt more relieved than anything. I ended up moving on to someone who treated me with respect and made sure that no one would come between us. But, on the other hand Edgar ended up losing me and Maddie’s friendship. After two weeks of our break up, Maddie started dating someone and ignored Edgar.
This is when I realized the true meaning of Karma. Edgar never supported me or understood me and now he was left with neither of us. I know both Maddie and I were not happy during the last couple of months. But after, we both felt relieved while Edgar just felt dumb. He tried to juggle two girls knowing that it would be impossible. Everyone knew about it and his reputation changed from class clown jock to cold hearted boyfriend and a friendship breaker.