I don’t walk under ladders because quite frankly, it’s dangerous. I like Friday the 13th because it’s Friday and I love the weekends. When I knock on wood, I don’t do it because I believe in good luck, I just like using hand motions when I speak. I’m not very superstitious.
I do believe in karma, though. There is a debate whether karma is a superstition or a belief. Personally, I think it’s the latter. I do believe in the old adage what comes around, goes around. And that goes for both the good and the bad. I’m not saying that bad things will never happen to good people or bad people will never benefit from their bad karma ways. What I am saying is that it ultimately catches up with you one way or another in the end. If I had my druthers, I’d rather be on the good side when that landslide happens. Will I sometimes get away with some bad karma shit once in awhile? Probably. Will I not feel the love for some of the good deeds I’ve sown? I don’t doubt it. But on the whole, I want to have enough deposits in the good karma bank account that it affords me a seat away from the splatter zone when the shit hits the fan. Some stains just don’t come off.
So, that’s a no to superstition and a yes to karma. What about you?
Broken mirrors made me think of the English Beat. Mirror in the Bathroom was released in 1980. People thought it was about cocaine, but it was inspired by something entirely different.
“I was working in construction at the time, and it was the winter. I had forgotten to hang my jeans up to dry overnight, so when I got into the bathroom to shower up, I noticed my jeans were still on the floor, soaking wet, covered in sand. So I hung them up thinking well, it’s probably best to have them steaming hot and wet. I went to shave, and it was snowing, and I really, really didn’t want to go.
So I started talking to myself in the mirror as I was shaving up. And it was weird, because I looked deeper in the mirror, and I could see the little caption on the door behind, and I said to myself, Look, David, there’s just me and you in here.
The door’s locked. We don’t have to go to work. Of course we did. Got on the motorbike, and I just started pondering as I skated my way to the construction site on this motorbike. And that’s how it started. It was thinking about how self-involvement turns into narcissism and how narcissism turns into isolation, and then how isolation turns into self-involvement again, and how what a vicious cycle that can become.
– Songfacts
Self-involvement, narcissism and isolation. Sounds like a certain someone in the news and continuously in court these days. I’m still waiting for karma to make it’s way back around. Karma is really going to be a bitch on that one.
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Mirror in the bathroom
Please talk free
The door is locked
Just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
That's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
While you are eating.
Mirror in the bathroom
I just can't stop it,
Every Saturday you see me
Window shopping.
Find no interest
In the racks and shelves
Just ten thousand reflections
Of my own sweet self, self, self...
Mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom...
Mirror in the bathroom
Recompense
For all my crimes
Of self defense.
Cures you whisper
Make no sense
Drift gently into
Mental illness.
Mirror in the bathroom
Please talk free
The door is locked
Just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
That's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
While you are eating.
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom...
MyGenXerLife 
I do believe in karma, I suppose as an adjunct to or extension of conscience. I also knock on wood (for luck), avoid going under ladders (sensible) and occasionally will throw a pinch of salt over my left shoulder (not sure why).
Great song, one of my faves from the genre. Saw this band once (unless it the successor band General Public, as it was around the time the latter replaced the former, long ago in the 80s as I learned when posting about another of their songs, “Save It for Later”). It was a great concert, people were up out of their seats dancing through a lot of it.
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Save it for Later makes me think about my youth more than most. I don’t know why. It’s such a great song.
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Yeah, great song. Stylistically so different from this one, which is interesting.
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I’m praying that Karma is the biggest B ever for the certain someone!! Loved Kimmel’s joke at the Oscars: “Isn’t it past your jail time”
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I love this post. Especially the big B and Karma. 😂👌
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Let’s see what happens!
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I gotta say , that broken mirror one alone might put in the superstitious column. I try not to do that. Bad luck…maybe not for 7 yrs but, whew…I don’t need to call 7m of that. I am a firm believer in “Karma will bite ya” but maybe, since reading this I’ll change it to “Karma will bite ya or kiss ya, eventually.”
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Yes! I like that!
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