Journal 6--Blaming someone else

All of us can admit it.  We've at least once in our lives blamed someone else for something they didn't do at all to save our own skins. It's human nature, and it's a survival technique: Avoid getting in trouble and let someone else take the heat for it. Though this can save you momentarily, the karma will eventually come back to you, and you'll wish you hadn't said a word. Blaming someone else for something they didn't do is a mean cruel trick, and a variety of things can come back and haunt you if you're the culprit. For one, the person might try to avenge what you did to them. The last thing you want is a fury driven victim  planning your immediate death in the dead of night why you sleep in bed unaware. So who knows what they'll do to you when they get the chance! Another thing that an happen is that you might loose your rep. If someone finds out what you did,  you're in trouble, and no one will ever trust you with anything ever again. Not to mention everyone will think you're an evil scumbag who doesn't deserve any love or care anymore. People strongly dislike people who blame others for things they didn't do. The main thing you have to fear though, out of everything, is the truth. With truth comes wrath, and if you can't keep the truth hidden, you will have to face it. Keeping the person you blamed to keep their mouth shut is hard enough, and it all depends on who is more trustworthy. The worst mistake is when YOU blame someone else, THEY deny it, and it turns out that THEY are the more reliable one. Then YOU look terrible for what you did, and everyone knows what trick you were trying to pull. Talk about embarrassing. In the end though, the most likely thing that will happen is that the guilt will eat you alive. Having to see someone suffer and be punished for a 'crime' they didn't commit can chew you up inside. You might find yourself awake at night wishing that you hadn't done what you did. You might even tell the truth and face the heat. The truth will come out eventually, and if it doesn't find you, the person you blamed WILL.