[FDTxtianshix]

Do you ever feel that you�re not being rewarded for being nice? Not only are you not rewarded, you�re bitten in the butt by it. Don�t understand what I�m saying? Here are two personal experiences that propelled me to ask these questions.

About a year back, I found a man�s wallet in the library. There was about $30 cash, debit/credit cards, and IDs. I immediately gave it to the librarian without thinking twice. I didn�t even take the cash (which, a lot of finders do).
On the other hand, I got my wallet stolen while I was VOLUNTEERING for a kid�s science fun run. I had my bus pass (worth $42), $40 cash, debit card and sticky pictures in my wallet. I never saw my stuff again.

Moving on to a different story.

Yesterday was the Junior Badminton tryouts at my school. Being a senior player and a member of the team for 3 years, I decided to stay, watch and play when there are free courts. I took off my jacket and put it next to my bag. After the tryouts finished, I couldn�t find my jacket. A black, cotton zip-up was left there, so my first guess was that the owner of that jacket accidentally took my jacket (quite ridiculous, as my jacket is stretchy and nowhere near cotton. The material is kind of like spandex material xD). My friend was going to just leave it in the gym, but I said �it has to belong to someone trying out� and I gave it to the team sponsor for safe-keeping.
The badminton team sponsor put an announcement in the PA for my jacket, and the next day, it was broadcast throughout the whole school. It said �lost jacket, please return to ____ in room ____�. The senior badminton team tryouts were being held after school the same day. As I walked to the team sponsor, I realized a boy was there. Turns out, that boy is the owner of the jacket we found. The team sponsor told me that the boy put my jacket in the office. Well, that�s a euphemism for �just dumping it in the lost and found box in the corner of the office�. I go to check the box, and it�s not there. Guess somebody took my jacket from the lost and found box, or the boy never returned it. Who knows?
I�m sort of baffled by how inconsiderate that boy was. If he had just used a fraction of a calorie to think about who the possible owner of the jacket may be, I don�t think he would just dump it in the lost and found. He should�ve realized that it was a badminton players jacket, and given it to the team sponsor. So, because I was considerate for him, he gets his jacket back. But, because he wasn�t considerate of me, I don�t get my $65 jacket back.

Do you have any experiences like mine? You do something good, yet get repaid by bad karma? If yes, how do you deal with it?

P.S: I know this sounds kind of like a rant, but I seriously want to get answers to my questions.

[KAITOU KID.]

Totally know the feeling ._______.

Do have a few stories of my own; might edit post with them later xD.

But chea, totally sucks. It's ridiculous how karma can be so bean pie =p

[elicasis]

yea life totally sux like that

[supa'Wanki]

I've always been a gentleman and nice to everyone i meet. It's who I am, I've never cared about "bad karma". I never will, thats being weak and low.

I've got my house robbed, got 50k worth of stuff stolen from my house, got my jeans stolen at the tennis courts(includes wallet, zune, and cellphone i bought two days before). Grandma gets diagnosed with cancer. Got into a car accident. Been treated badly. Been verbally abused. That's this year by itself. The list can go on forever.

I've learned to always think positively. Being negative is useless, it doesnt help at all. It just makes yourself feel bad and depressed. You make it seem like everything bad that happens to you is because you do nice things. Thats bull. Don't think that way, its not cool.

You're a great person for doing nice things for people. Life's a pinkberry. but you know what, the more we contribute to others happiness, we will find the true meaning of life.

[FDTxtianshix]

I've always been a gentleman and nice to everyone i meet. It's who I am, I've never cared about "bad karma". I never will, thats being weak and low.

I've got my house robbed, got 50k worth of stuff stolen from my house, got my jeans stolen at the tennis courts(includes wallet, zune, and cellphone i bought two days before). Grandma gets diagnosed with cancer. Got into a car accident. Been treated badly. Been verbally abused. That's this year by itself. The list can go on forever.

I've learned to always think positively. Being negative is useless, it doesnt help at all. It just makes yourself feel bad and depressed. You make it seem like everything bad that happens to you is because you do nice things. Thats bull. Don't think that way, its not cool.

You're a great person for doing nice things for people. Life's a pinkberry. but you know what, the more we contribute to others happiness, we will find the true meaning of life.

Wow, my condolenses to you.
I was kind of talking about the same event..like, I returned someone's wallet, but someone steals mine.

Thanks for your answer though, great insight.

[supa'Wanki]

Wow, my condolenses to you.
I was kind of talking about the same event..like, I returned someone's wallet, but someone steals mine. unsure.gif

Thanks for your answer though, great insight.

the key is to think positively. When my house got robbed, i was pissed. i felt like crying because i felt like this happened because of me. but my mom told me not to worry, she told me to think of it as an early christmas present to those that robbed my house, and that we shouldn't be complaining because we're still better off than millions of people all around the world.

[JJ no Baka]

my dad keep on say that. dont be good because you'll never be repaid with goodness back. [blahblahblah, and he goes on stating what good he did, and that he got sh*t back. ]

it never happened to me. but there were times where my life just went all flipped flopped and i most likely blame it on myself when i was younger where i did a bunch of bad things. so yeah.

[Sense91]

:[ i know how u feel!!
like when u let people borrow money and they dont let you
and stuff like that

[wantan]

my dad keep on say that. dont be good because you'll never be repaid with goodness back. [blahblahblah, and he goes on stating what good he did, and that he got sh*t back. dry.gif]

hahaha , my father is exactly like that

[HoneyOnMyTongue09]

Sorry that you never got your jacket back, but I think though it may seen that you do a lot of good deeds and you have bad luck, but I think at some point in life all the good things you do will result in good things happening to you, maybe not now but sooner than later. When you do good deeds ask yourself if you're doing it just to be doing it or if you're doing it for a reward for the forces of karma?

Ask for the same experience I've had some crappy things happen to me in mylife so far... some really crappy things but I just keep on trucking on not caring if I get rewarded for helping people or not. I just think that things happen for a reason.

Who knows maybe the guy did put your jacket in the lost and found and when it was announced over the intercom one of your fan's or crushes found out and took it. Hey it's a possibility.

[Miss Vivienne]

Yeah, once I did a deed of returning $80 I found on the restroom floor of my school, and all I got in return were glares from my classmate for being a goodie-two shoes.

[Adver]

bad stuff happen to me b/c deep down inside i hate people but i do nice things lol...i'm weird

[jaefan]

You are a nice guy.

but i do believe that one day your good deeds will pay back.

[PDURRR]

atleast you made the persons day by finding his wallet?

i know the little kids at work take advantage of me because i'm too nice..lol

[KTHubbybunch]

LOL, I definitely hate this kind of thing happens to me. its like being cursed at all! O_O" i don't understand why it happens too. -__-"

[lizelle]

yeah..
this has happened to me
and it sucks butt.

[brownman90561495]

i have a blog entry entitled "No Reward for Nice Guys" -> http://secret--lover.blogspot.com/2009/06/...-nice-guys.html

and there's another rant about this -> Ode to Nice Guys. i will look for it.

[__LOST]

if that happens i just tell myself a LOT of good karma is on its way to make up for the crappiness & not to get too bothered about it. anger won't really change the situation.

[HeloiseJay]

I feel so sorry you, that's so bad.. I try to be nice to everyone but sometimes I don't get it returned and be mean back so I just don't borther. It's like I'm nice the you.. be nice back!

[Mannosuke]

When I do something nice, I don't expect anything in return.
If people do nice things because they expect nice things to happen to them, THEN they are really suckers.

Now I know some people will say "that's cute manno, but you wouldn't be saying that when you try your best to please everyone but they just don't reciprocate such effort"

Not really?! I'm not going to get pissed off when I help someone out, but that person doesn't help me back. I'm not going to think "what an ingrate, doesn't even think about all the nice things I do for him, well now I'm not going to help him at all!"