Feb 10, 2007 00:27
Ok...so today the body piercer who was finishing my apprenticeship and was charging me $1800. I paid him. He took off for Florida with my money and is denying that I gave him money.
I was so shocked that someone would do such a thing. But for some reason, I just couldn't stop laughing. :lol:
It's like...I just felt so sad for him that he felt like he had to do that. It's like these moments that happen and you totally surprise yourself with your reactions.
At the end of the day, I do things out of love. And no wonder he was always so insecure...one time I got a bartenders number and he called her a bar slut and I looked at him and told him to have some integrity. He got really offended - NO WONDER.
But when I've been doing two heart chakra meditations for the past month, and someone could steal $1800 from me, and all I could do was laugh. I just amazed myself. I just feel so great that I am going to be wealthy as a result of having integrity and honor. At the end of the day, I will be rich, honest, and fulfilled. And at the end of the day, he has to think about how he has money, but feels empty and worthless, and that just sucks.
I have learned a lot of valuable lessons in the past week. I am so grateful to be alive.
To end, I'd like to share one of my FAVORITE excerpts from one of my FAVORITE books, Walden by Thoreau:
"Rather then love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices. I thought that there was no need of ice to freeze them. They talked to me of the age of the wine and the fame of the vintage, which they had not got, and could not buy. The style, the house and grounds and "entertainment" pass for nothing with me. I called on the king, but he made me wait in his hall, and conducted like a man incapacitated for hospitality. There was a man in my neighborhood who lived in a hollow tree. His manners were truly regal, I should have done better had I called on him."
You can have money, and you can attain it unhonestly and with a lack of integrity. It's easy to trick nice sweet 18 yr. old girls with trust funds for college. But at the end of the day, if you do not have an open heart, it means nothing.
I would rather have my money stolen, then steal someone else's money. Because at the end of the day I get to be the compassionate one, and he has to be the one feeling guilty, ugly, and empty.
What a lesson.