Steve, theoretically it's like you say, but in practice things often change.
You have been burnt by a recent friendship and apparently are not able to get over it yet.
I have been burnt by a friend who, although I gave him full trust, started to take advantage of me. This relates to $$$.
We can write or speak as much as we want. That friendship has ceased to exist to me. I feel betrayed. Also, this episode has undermined the word trust to me. In future and in next lives I'll be much less trusty in business (reads: no trust at all).
I find it interesting that u use the phrase "apparently are not able to get over it".... and... "being burnt." The question is this; Who is being burnt? If the answer is that it is only a character playing a part; then how much r we identified with that part we played? We learn from life's lessons. I believe that Master places us just where we need to be and uses our karma to show us about ourselves. In this lite should we blame others or ourselves?
Fortunately for me i have little or no bad feelings towards others. It often takes time though to discover what people r really like. In this sense it is not a matter of 'getting over' someone but rather watching how they act as the whole scenario unfolds. It often takes patience to ascertain just what a person's true colors are. I do not make an assessment so quickly. However; in the process we also see how others around us react or handle these type of situations. It is somewhat like being exposed to different lessons and gleaning what we can from everything that unfolds.
The movie may have a break between lives but remember this; if others have created a debt and owe us something because of the way they have treated us....eventually they will have to be in our presence or similar situation to pay that debt. Then again we are in a position of reacting or not reacting to them and our assessment of them of course will be quite different which means that they will be facing the Karma they had created or if we have reacted some way we will face part of the karma that we have with that person. So u see we r always facing our own past actions. Seeing this we gain insight into how it feels to be treated the way we once treated others.
i don't know mccoy. It is a bit surealistic. I mean watching this picture show in which this guy gets burnt and another gets swindled out of some money.
