is Asian and Buddhist.
She decidedly believes in Karma which I think is unhealthy. Once she became a little bit "Americanized" her saying
was: "what comes around goes around", a saying she learned from her workmates in a low-paying job. For the
downtrodden (not that I think you are, I think the opposite of you), that philosophy helps them to cope but doesn't
really get them anywhere better. To her and other believers of that, they feel as if their station in life has
nothing to do with ability but rather luck, or lack of it and that the tide will eventually turn but you and I know
it really never does unless we do something to better ourselves.
Another saying (philosophy) I hear once in
a while is "be nice to people on your way up as you might meet them again on your way down".
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