For me... It happens more than i would like and more often than I believe it happens to other people. How often does it happen to you where you hell at someone or fight with them only to run into them like a year later in an awkward or uncomfortable way... Like the two of you applying for the same job waiting in the same lobby together or something like that?

It isn't just you. I've come to find that what you give is exactly what you get in the long run. And just as importantly, never burn bridges. You never know which ones you'll need to cross later.

Sorry ma'am, that doesn't sound familiar to me. I guess I only yell at people I already know. The pepole I don't know just get the finger and "asshole."

Hummmmmm....wonder what you could do differently so that would not happen anymore.

that very rarely happens to me. i think its because i try to be on good terms with everyone and find a resolution with people that i exchange words with at the end of the conversation (if they are receptive to it). if they are completely alienating themselves out of rage, i keep the person in my meditations and send positive thoughts their way. i forgive anyone who attacks me without cause or provokation (and its almost always the other party starting the insults/attacks). by doing so, i resolve any karmic issues. i dont know if you believe in karma, but i have found that people will continue to "haunt" you and the same issues will keep cropping up until you have learned the life lesson and repaid the karmic obligation. you reap what you sow. the secret to getting them to relent is to forgive. by having closure and no unresolved business, these belligerent types are less likely to rear their ugly heads. when they become nasty i tell them very plainly what i think of their bad behavior and hold the mirror up in front of them. my aim is to educate. and if they are retaliatory i tell them not to bother ~ that their anger is a waste of energy. they are not going to win, because their animosity will not have the impact on me they desire. after i do this, i let the unpleasantness go. then i meditate and send out positive healing energy their way ~ because i realize they are suffering greatly. i have found that tremendous @$$holes are generally the ones carrying around the most amount of pain. in the future when i see them i am friendly and kind to them as long as they are civil to me. even jerks have their good points. and frankly, we are all jerks at one time or another.

Allegory 'Why' I leaned from the low hung crescent moon and grasping the west pointing horn of it, looked down. Against the other horn reclined, motionless, a shining One looked at me, but I was unafraid. Below me the hills and valleys were thick with humans, and the moon swung low that I might see what they did. 'Who are they?' I asked the shining One. For I was unafraid. And the Shinging One made answer: 'They are the sons and daughters of God.' I looked again and saw that they beat and trampled one another, sometimes they seemed not to know one another. Sometimes they seemed not to know that the fellow creature that they pushed from their path fell under their feet. But sometimes they looked as he fell and kicked him brutally. And I said to the Shining One 'Are they all the sons and daughters of God?' And the Shining One said 'All.' As I leaned in and watched them it grew clear to me that each one was frantically seeking something, and it was because they sought what they sought with such singleness of purpose that they were so inhuman to all who hindered them. And I said to the Shining One 'What do they seek?' and the Shining One made answer: 'Happiness.' 'Are they all seeking happiness?' 'All.' 'Have any of them found it?' 'None of those have found it.' 'Do they ever believe they have found it?' 'Sometimes they believe they have found it.' My eyes filled, for at that moment I caught a glimpse of a woman with her child at her breast, and I saw the baby torn from her and the woman cast into a deep pit by a man with his eyes fixed upon a shining lump that he believed to be (or perchance to contain, I know not) Happiness. I turned to the shining One, eyes blinded with tears and said 'Will they ever find it?' and He answered 'They will find it.' 'All of them.?' 'All of them.' 'Those who are trampled?' 'Those who are trampled.' 'And those who trample?' 'And those who trample.' I looked again, a long time at what they were doing on the hills and in the valleys, and again my eyes went blind with tears and I sobbed out to the Shining One. 'Is it Gods will, or the work of evil that men seek happiness?' 'It is God's Will.' 'It looks so like the work of the devil.' The shining One smiled inscrutably 'It does look like the work of the Devil.' When I had looked a little longer I cried out in protest 'Why has He put them all here to seek happiness and to cause each other such immesurable suffering and misery?' Again, the Shining One smiled inscrutably, 'They are Learning.' 'What are they learning?' 'They are learning life and they are learning love.' I said nothing. One man in the herd below heald me breathless, fascinated. he walked proudly and others ran and laid the bound, struggling bodies of living men before him that he might tread upon them and his feet may never touch the earth. But suddenly a whirlwind came up and seized him, tore his purple from him and set him down naked among strangers And they fell upon him and maltreated him sorely. I clapped my hands. 'Good, Good!' I cried, exultantly. 'He got what he deserved.' Then I looked up suddenly and saw again the inscrutable smile of the Shining One. And the smiling One spoke quietly 'They all get what they deserve.' 'And no worse?' I asked 'And no worse.' He replied 'And no better?' 'How can there be any better? They deserve whatever shall teach them the true way to happiness.' I was silenced. And still the people went on seeking, and trampling each other in their eagerness to find. and I perceived what I had not fully grasped before, that the whirlwind caught them up from time to time and set them down elsewhere to continue their search. and I said to the Shining One 'Does the whirlwind always set them down again upon these hills and in these valleys?' And the SHining One made answer: 'Not always.' 'Where then?' I asked Him. 'Look above you.' and I looked up and above me stretched the milky way and gleamed the constellations.' and I breathed 'Oh!' and fell silent. Awed by what was given to me to comprehend. Below me they still trampled each other and I asked the Shining One 'But no matter where the whirlwind sets them down, they go on seeking happiness?' 'They go on seeking happiness.' he answered. 'And the whirlwind makes no mistakes?' 'the whirlwind makes no mistakes.' 'It puts them sooner or later exactly where they will get what they deserve?' 'Yes, it does.' Then the load crushing my heart lightened, and I found I could look at the brutal cruelties that went on below me with piety for the cruel, the longer I looked the stronger the compassion grew inside me. and I said to the shining One'They act like men goaded.' 'They are men goaded.' 'What goads them?' 'It's name is desire.' Then when I had looked a little longer I cried out to Him. 'Desire is an Evil thing!' But the face of the Shining One grew stern and His voice rang out, dismaying me. 'Desire is NOT an evil thing!' I trembled and thought withdrew itself into the inner-most chamber of my heart. Till at last I said 'It is desire that nerves men on to learn the lessons that God has set.' 'It is desire that nerves them on.' 'THe lessons of life and love?' 'The lessons of life and love!' Then I could no longer see that they were cruel, only see that they were learning. I watched them with deep love and compassion, as one by one the whirlwind carried them out of site.

The people that you meet in life are the people that you are supposed to meet. The situations are to teach you. Teach you what? To teach you how to be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect and to love your neighbor as your self! Sound familiar. Your entire experience in this dimension is a training seminar to grow and perfect your spirit. There are 2 realms, spiritual and physical. They both require nourishment. The sun and air are free. The water and food take effort. God's love is free. The energy that makes you grow comes from your love and good works.

No, I think there is nothing weird about it, as it is a human nature to to increase their acquaintance in the ways one likes to enjoys his life.

Yes. It has happened at my condo. A passing word or glance takes on a diff connotation and all of a sudden I've got a lifelong enemy at board meetings and such. I haven't found a simple way to undo the damage either.