Stacie's Essay: Karma Will Come Back On You

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In my opinion, I think it is almost impossible for someone to get away with telling a lie. Yes, if you are smooth enough or sneaky enough you might be able to get away with it, but beware, karma will come \back on you. What is the meaning of that saying? For example, when Stacy lies to her boss about not attempting to steal the nice sweater she wanted to give to Dan. As the result, Stacy’s boss does not believe her and fires her immediately because of that. So when people say “Karma will come back on you” they mean “what goes around, comes around.” Now usually when someone lies to another person, they usually end up lying to themselves to convince themselves that the action that they just committed wasn’t wrong of them to do. He or she wants themselves …show more content…

When Stacie and Dan are talking, Stacie asks Dan to help her on her essay for history, of course, Dan asks how can he help and Stacie asks him to write it for her and Dan agrees and she thanks Dan and calls him a “Mother Teresa”. Dan also mentions to Stacie that he wants a white sweater that he sees at the store that Stacie works at. To make Dan happy, when the store is closing, Stacie grabs the white sweater and stuffs it inside of a box. Her boss sees Stacie moving boxes and offers to help her, but she declines it and continues on, but he refuses to take no for an answer. When Stacie’s boss lifts up the box and the white sweater falls out, Stacie tries to play it cool by saying “We should check the other boxes to make sure nothing else is in them.” Stacie’s boss demands an explanation and Stacie lies by saying she had nothing to do with the sweater ending up with the box, but he is very skeptical about her story and fires her instantly. A few days later, Stacie ends up at the principal’s office with her parents as her parents are informed about Stacie’s dishonesty on the history exam and her

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