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Wotd: Comeuppance
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Do bad things, and bad things will eventually happen to you. In other words, you will get your comeuppance.
Everything comes back to you. Everyone has their little philosophical statements on life, and that is one of mine.
When people wrong us in some way, a native speaker may say, “You’ll get your comeuppance! Just you wait!”
You can call comeuppance a deserved punishment, penalty or lousy luck for doing something terrible.
It often happens naturally.
Whether you believe in a god, gods plural, or you are an atheist, you have to admit that things have an uncanny way of working out.
Good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people.
Comeuppance has a way of finding people sooner or later.
Every once in a while, we’ll hear about a person who embezzled money from a bank or company over a long period.
They may have gotten away with it for 20 years, but eventually, they get their comeuppance.
They are caught, thrown in jail, and lose their position in society and everything they managed to amass with their ill-gained wealth.
Our parents and community, in general, tell us to be nice to others because they know if we are not, we will get our comeuppance.
Even though others don’t actively seek revenge against us for bad things we have done to them, there is a force in the universe that will exact vengeance upon us.
It may not be tomorrow, next month or even five years after the fact, but bad people will get their comeuppance one way or another.
You can count on it.
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