Why helping is not doing any good! (Karma is only for crybabies and sissies)

A real life story

You don't need to tell me about Karma and that good deeds will pay off where as bad action will be punished. Please keep this kind of rubbish for yourself, if you haven't noticed most dictators could play their role as despot for the most part of their lives. Those guys can only laugh about bad karma.

And that you will not only get brownie points for your nice doings should even the biggest dreamer have understood by now. Very often you will even get punished and you will meet another highlight of all the fuck overs life has to offer. And there are quite a few waiting for most of us.

I can give you some great example and tell you a little story. The winter weather of the last couple of weeks just reminded me of that adventure which happened some years ago here in Japan.

It was also a day of heavy snowfall and I was going back home late from Niigata to Gosen, were I was living at that time. Usually that would have taken me about an hour but as I said, it was a day with snow.

The great fun started when I got stuck in a traffic jam on a country road and I had now idea when I would have the chance to continue my journey. But inside the car it was warm and I was waiting for the things to come. And they came, and it got much better.

The lane back was still free but than some truck got stuck too, right at my position what of course blocked the other direction as well. It took a while until some heroes in uniform arrived who after a moment of confused planning started pushing the big vehicle.

Stupid as I am I decided to help. Since there were many people around waiting in all the cars in front or behind me I was thinking there should be a lot of potential helping hands, who all had the same desire to get home as soon as possible. Therefor I turned of the engine and got out of the car and to the astonishment of our Japanese friends I jumped in and starting pushing too. I really thought my good example will be a great inspiration.

And there we were standing and shoving, the three of us since not one single person came out to join us. But everybody was just gawking at us from their comfortable car seats as if we were in some kind of safari park.

And somehow we managed to get the truck out and the driver happily left as fast as he could. Completely understandable cause who wants to get stuck again.

After some hot air from our heroes in blue I just wanted to get back into my car since it started to get pretty cold. But it got much more chilly when even after many tries my engine didn't want to roar again. The starter was coughing a little and than the battery died completely.

Well bad luck I was just thinking, the guys in the white hats (or as we say in German „our friends and helpers“) were already here. But that those guys will be a great help was just some silly assumption, there wasn't anything they could do and their friendliness vanished and gave way to some complete helpnessless.

If you thought the police would have some jumper cables in their car you were just plain wrong. The guys were totally overchallenged and were just thinking how to get rid of that foreigner as soon as possible. First the tried to convince me to call my friends and all the people I know. What a great idea around midnight in a cold and stormy winter night.

Finally one of the two called a number of some wrecking service, the Japanese word for that is „Rekka“, I will never ever forget that. And there I discovered another surprise. The person on the phone wasn't happy at all when he or she noticed I wasn't from here. Allegedly the had some „bad experience“ with guys like me and they refused to come out to help.

But I was not letting them go and the guy in blue who was talking to them on my behalf than told me they would come if I could pay the cost for that service right on the spot.

Fortunately I had enough Yen in my pocket and they said they would be there in about an hour.

The other cars around me already started moving and I was left on that country road with that two heroes who probably just wanted to leave me here alone and now were waiting in their warm hero mobile while I was sitting in my cold car watching the snowy winter night.

It felt like forever but some road service car arrived and it took him just a minute to start my engine again and to collect about a 100 Dollars from me. The great piece of good advice not to stop again and to go home straight wasn't really necessary. I was not planning to have one more of those great adventures.

After a kinda cold farewell I was able to get back home without any further disruption, a few hours later than actually planned.

But when I was sitting there in my car and was waiting in that cold grim night I had a lot of time to think where and when did I do wrong. It was quite a clear case. If I didn't get out of my car and stopped the engine all that would not have happened. And I only did that because in my simplemindedness I thought I should help. Believe me, I really learned my lesson:

Do not help!

Yes that is right, forget the Karma lie others are telling to mindfuck you. If you show mercy people will just use you and you will get punished. Life has just fucked around with me and shown that it might just be better to let the other do all the work.

Sympathy is for the loser. Winners will not show that kind of weaknesses. Get over it and become tougher!

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