Karma is an odd thing. Most people who believe in Karma seem to believe that people can also be instruments of Karma- didn’t get that job? Karma. But... a human being made the call- so obviously humans play a part in Karma. So who is to say that bully wasn’t somehow your Karma? I can’t figure out what I did as a child to deserve some of what came my way from the universe- so I could t be Latin for anything I’d done in this life. So either reincarnation plays a part and perhaps that’s Karma from a past life, or if Karma is real perhaps it doesn’t follow linear time and one can pay for things before they’ve done them, or have good things yet to come balanced by bad things happeneing now? Who knows. I don’t hold against people the way they acted as children, or 10,20,30+ years ago so much because people can change. And speaking of Karma- when someone bullies you it means they can. You’re in a position of weakness and they aren’t. They look down on you- usually because they are flawed...
... and insecure people. So to turn around later, and see a former bully in a lesser position, then to look down on them and revel in it- that sort of makes you the same doesn’t it? If it made them a flawed and insecure person to take pleasure in your suffering- what does that say about you? And to Karma- maybe it’s cyclical and it’s more about the type of person you are than what you do? Maybe they were always going to try out a loser, and you were always going to be a person who takes joy in their suffering, and so maybe you being bullied was karma because when you met them again you were always going to look down on them? Who knows? But I believe people can change, and people should be able to find happiness and become better and move past things they are sorry for. It doesn’t erase those things, but we don’t need to hold on to those things and let them twist us as humans either. Sadism is circular.
Probably