saturday busking + karma

today bren and his friend were at the bookshop busking to celebrate red pages first birthday. i think that buskers are amazing (and i'm not just saying that as i'm biased). i can't think of very many times that i have walked past a busker and not given them change from my purse (unless i absolutely had none). i think that even if i'm only putting in 50cents, if everyone put in that much then the busker is getting something from it. and i don't think that it is easy to sit on the pavement, putting your talent out there and hoping that someone will like it. i remember, as a kid, i would get very excited if mum gave me some coins to throw in someone's guitar case.
there's an older man who quite often sits outside of iga in town, playing an accordion and singing. he also has a wheelchair, or a walker - i'm not entirely sure - and he displays a few albums that he's released. i think it's incredible, this is what he loves and he's making money from it; very usually when i walk past there will be $5, $10 and even $20 notes in his case.
i always hope that if i have this way of thinking - to give spare change to buskers - that it'll come back as a good thing, good karma, whenever bren busks. that people will in turn give him a few dollars. he also loves buskers seeing he hates having change in his wallet ('it's too heavy'). hopefully bren will get a license (we don't need one in such a small town, just permission from store owners is enough) and can start busking in the city. who knows, maybe thanks to our good doings, people will put spare change into bren's case - i don't see why people wouldn't, they're giving up their own time to entertain, basically.

i've been reading stories on karma just this afternoon and i half believe in it, because sometimes people do really kind things without anything in return - solely because they're good people - and often people who maybe need something bad to happen (which sounds awful, but we all have one person who needs it) as a bit of a wake up call. 
i like the thought that even if karma doesn't exist, people want to do good things in case it does.