John Lennon once sang about how "Instant karma's going to get you". I often think I must have been a very bad person in a previous life.

Last year my health took a bit of a dive and we're still dealing with a bit of that. Yes, it did have a bit to do with my year-long hiatus, but I'm not going into more detail at the moment. Maybe another day. Back to today's topic.

Thursday I woke up and started my usual routine for heading into the office. One of those steps is putting in "my eyes" as I have every day for nigh 25-years now. Boy, contacts have come a long ways since the old days of hard lenses and heated cleaning schedules.

On this occasion, I placed in my left lens. Then my right. I had immediate pain in my right eye and just assumed that the soft lens was inside out and I went to grab it so as to reverse it. It happens a lot since I now wear daily disposable lenses and they are super thin.

Only, when I went to grab it....nothing. My eye is now in pain and I feel the lens but it is nowhere to be seen. My wife looks and looks and looks with a flashlight.....she can't locate anything. Now I have a large hematoma on my upper eye-lid. I can still feel the lens in my eye. I half-joke to my wife that the lens has "gone behind my eye-ball". She is not laughing.

So, I rush over to my eye doctor. After some initial frantic moments he is able to extract half of the lens from way back-back-back-back in my upper eye socket. The other half? Not there and can't be found. But my eye immediately felt better so we think we got everything.

Instant karma's going to get you. Be nice in this lifetime. Otherwise, your bad deeds may carry over into your next.

Anyone else have a "karma" story they wish to share? Leave a comment.

Not familiar with the song? Check out the video below complete with scrolling lyrics (yet another neat "just discovered" function under the "wow" category):

Song lyrics | Instant Karma lyrics

Coming Saturday: VU Podcast Fifty-Nine with former special teams coach Gary Zauner.

Posted by briankeithmaas@msn.com at March 7, 2008 01:01 AM