<p>The prompt: What goes up must come down.</p>
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Isaac Newton was sitting on the ground, reclining against a tree, when an apple bounded onto his head. From this experience, he devised the law of gravity. A farmer might have reached a different conclusion. Having painstakingly sown the apple trees seeds, he would have seen the stalk push open the ground and reach towards the heavens. If the apple had hit his head, he must have smiled gently and thought to himself, What goes up must come down.</p>
<p>The idea of things coming back to their original position goes back further than Newton. It exists in modern English in the shape of the idiom having come full circle and in the form of the proverb You sow what you reap. A similar proverb in Urdu paints the picture of a dejected farmer bemoaning his spoilt crop, when he himself forget to put the protective net which keeps out birds. Across the border, in India, the phrase karma exists to show that bad luck eventually befalls the perpetrator. The last few ideas i.e. You sow what you reap and the idea of karma encompass an idea of the originator facing the troubles he unleashed on others. They are follow the same path as does the idea what goes up must back down.</p>
<p>But is it true? It is the equivalent of a malevolent teenager indulging in hurting the less powerful. First he bullies the geeks in school by grasping their weaker arms when the sports coach is distracted and reveling in their winces. During an educational trip to the botanical gardens, he throws a tennis ball straight up into the air as he cranes his neck to peer at the lark sitting on the branch. However, the lark and its neighbouring birds fly off in time, squawking. The tennis ball falls back on the bully and he clutches his head in pain.
Our example certainly illustrates karma. However, the skeptic will argue that it involves an enormous amount of luck: the fact that the birds realized the imminent danger in time and that the boy was foolish enough to throw the ball directly above him. The human victims of his bullying did not have the same serendipity and thus were left unavenged by the mysterious force of karma.</p>
<p>While the skeptic has made an astute point, karma shows clearly that life is a set of chances. Thus, it is more likely than not that our victims of bulling will eventually prevail, whether through academic success and ensuing satisfying employment or other means such as the smiles that neighbours and relatives bestow on them. The bully is more likely to be exempt from these pleasures.</p>
<p>This example, like others in life illustrates that the concept of karma or reaping what you sow though intangible and abstract is often very real. Perhaps, the English phrase coming full circle (though used in different contexts) also originated from these notions. If one follows the threads of life, one will become a believer in the concept that what goes must come down, whether that is an apple, a tennis ball or pain and suffering.</p>
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<p>I’m not taking any classes for SAT so I have no way to check it. I’d really appreciate it if someone could give me some feedback and, of course, a score :)</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>