I caught the tail end of one of those court TV shows. The woman had been accused of stalking another person on MySpace and it messed up the victims’ life somehow. The woman gave all these reasons why the other person was bad and said “I believe in karma.” Karma had a little help. You can’t just do what you think a person deserves and then call it karma, that’s revenge. Two very different things.

Last Night in a very sleepy state I frantically scribbled down a quote for the base of a blog post. I was watching TV at the time but I can’t remember exactly what show or what it was in reference to. The quote was “Everything that is out there you chose to show.” I’ve been wondering where I was going with this or why it meant so much to me.

Was it during Project Runway? Were they trying to get the designers to take responsibility for their collections? Did this somehow speak to me as how I should represent myself?

Did it come up during a Jon & Kate plus 8 commercial? Did it occur to me that while the couple always complains about the paparazzi they seem to egg them on? During last week’s episode they showed Jon ignoring his kids while he texted then going out to the fence to talk to cute girls who wanted autographs while his kids waited to play a game.

I guess the quote is applicable to almost any show on TV. It seems so many of the reality shows then cry that they are victims of the media. I hope I remember what that quote was from soon.

I was watching Oprah a few days ago when she was interviewing women who had gone after a man who had knowingly given them all HIV. Oprah kept asking questions about whether they suspected something was wrong, or felt it in their guts. Then she quotes Maya Angelou as saying something like “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

This really got me thinking. Most of the time, people will tell you right out that they are always late or not looking for a relationship. Instead, we want them to be “the one” or have integrity so we just switch it up in our brains to he’s being insecure or humble. He’s really not; he’s showing you who he is. Believe him.