What Goes Around Comes Around: The Weight of Karma

Life has a rhythm, a cycle, a balance that can’t be escaped. What we put out into the world doesn’t just vanish into thin air—it circles back, often when we least expect it. This is karma: the quiet accountant of the universe, keeping track of debts and credits, cause and effect.

Karma isn’t punishment. It isn’t reward. It’s weight. Every action, every word, every intention we release carries energy, and that energy doesn’t die—it echoes. Sometimes it returns swiftly, like a boomerang, striking before we’ve even realized what we threw. Other times, it drifts for years, decades, lifetimes, only to settle when we’re most unguarded.

We feel the heaviness of karma when unresolved choices pile up—betrayals, lies, selfishness. But equally, we feel its lightness when love, kindness, and truth ripple outward and come back multiplied. Both sides of the scale demand balance, and balance always comes.

The lesson is simple but not always easy: if you want peace, sow peace. If you crave love, give love. If you seek freedom, let go of what binds others. Because the universe doesn’t forget. It recycles energy until every cycle completes, until the weight is lifted or learned from.

So ask yourself today: what am I sending out? When it circles back, will I be able to hold it?