WhatGoesAroundComesAround_DavisRob

INTRODUCTION
This book is a treatise on how life really works, that combines important
concepts with vignettes about people I have known personally, who
provide relevant examples. The saying “what goes around comes
around,” also the title of this book, is a common expression of our time
for what has been described in countless iterations over the ages.
The notion is a fundamental principle of life that applies to every human
being. Moreover, it is something that every person has heard in one form
or another, generally understands, and would likely more or less agree
on. What’s more it is something we readily invoke in observations about
others, and is as simple and fundamental as rain falling and flowers
growing. The puzzlement has always been that while it is so easy to see,
and comment on about the folly of others, it is so very hard to observe,
admit to and adjust for in our own behavior and lives.
When I was a kid in elementary school, and the family went to a
traditional Christian based church, it was embodied in the saying often
invoked, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” I had no idea what that meant
until sometime later when I learned the sow part meant to plant a seed,
including how much care and attention was taken in the process or not –
and had nothing to do with needles and thread. Also that reap described
what kind of harvest would result.
Still later, I remember the first time I heard what has become the modern
version, and the title of this book. It happened when someone you’ll
soon meet in these pages was, in his wisest possible voice, opining on
why a mutual acquaintance had suffered a debilitating comeuppance.
“It’s obvious,” he said. What goes around comes around!