Feb 16 2009
Why Nothing Is Free
Recently one of my colleagues wrote a blog post about the fact that nothing in life is free and someone else left a comment confirming it. It does seem to be true that some kind of exchange must be made for the things we want, because life is a balance that must be maintained. Some interpret this exchange as karma, but whatever you choose to call it, it’s real.
Sometimes what you’re doing makes it impossible for things in life to be free or perhaps what you’re not doing. Most likely you think you can’t be blamed for something that is just a part of life that must exist so that we all have money to pay for the things that we need. After all, how would we get the necessities of life without paying for them?
Society seems to be too busy with their daily schedules to do simple things for others that wouldn’t require a lot of additional effort or take them more than another minute or two. And there are things, such as using your signals when driving your car, that don’t require anything more than one simple movement. Serving others creates a positive flow of energy because you are giving something of yourself. This idea is similar to starting a flow of money, giving to receive it back, except that you aren’t spending anything but a little time and a little effort that can accumulate and return to you eventually.
We have all gone to a mall or shopping center and seen an unoccupied parking space that’s close to the store you want to shop in, but as you drive up to it, you realize that you can’t park there because a shopping cart was left in it. Whoever did it was probably not thinking anything other than they need to get home to cook dinner or something and it wasn’t done to intentionally aggravate you, but the result is the same no matter what the intent was. Or perhaps the person who did it decided that it wasn’t their job to put the cart out of the way. After all, stores pay their employees to do that kind of work. They aren’t paying you to do it and with the price of the goods you are buying, you’re already paying for that. There could be a dozen different reasons why someone was either intentionally or unintentionally inconsiderate.
The fact remains that you get what you give, you reap what you sow. What goes around, comes around. You can make good karma for yourself, or bad, depending on what you do. If you take that extra minute to do something considerate for someone that you probably won’t ever meet, you are still living in the service of others. You are giving something of value to someone else for free. And what you are giving is so small that you might think it’s inconsequential, making no difference in the world, but you are really making someone else’s life just a little bit easier, instead of more difficult. You are putting a smile on their face instead of frustrating them.
When you serve others, you create positive energy which will make its way back to you eventually. It will find you and reward you tenfold for a couple of reasons. The first is that everything in the universe is energy and the energy takes a specific form which is largely determined by the frequency of its vibrational rate. Like energies, or those of the same frequency, attract each other. Positive actions create energy at a higher frequency than negative ones and which ever actions you take will find like energies, in the same way a rolling snowball collects more snow, and return to you. And the reason it comes back to you is because you created it and it carries your signature, just like a fingerprint or how you sign your name. You cannot escape this return.
This is exactly why so few things in life are free for most people. It’s simply because you are probably just too busy to do something nice for someone and you’re perceived by them as being selfish or lazy. And because the energy you send out has your signature, you will find that many things are free or most things are not, depending on your own actions. When you complain about nothing being free, try to consider what you could be doing or not doing to contribute to it.
