What goes around comes around? Options

[HakunaMatata]

I remember a Grey's Anatomy episode a while back, and it discussed the philosophy of Karma. In everyday though, Karma is the belief that what goes around comes around. Do good, and you will receive good. Inflict harm, and expect retaliation.

Most of the people I've met whole-heartedly believe this be true. In fact, before the Grey's Anatomy episode, I had never even though of it not being true. However, the show said something I never thought about clearly: What about the dying? The severely diseased? Do they deserve what they have?

My mom has had cancer that refuses to go away for over a year now, and I cannot, for the life of me, say she deserves it. Even from an objective point of view, she does not. She is an amazing woman, and for someone to say that Karma, what goes around comes around, can be applied here, is atrocious to me.

I began contemplating whether Karma was real or not, or whether it just an excuse to reason why bad things happen. I've come to the conclusion that it's all just coincedence. Good things happen, bad things happen, what we do has nothing to do it. Well, not nothing, obviously we can place ourselves in places of safety and take care of ourselves, but the fact that someone stubbed their toe on the bed after waking up has nothing to do with the dirty look the person gave the previous day. It just happened.

I could be over-thinking this and complicating such a "simple" theory like Karma, but I don't think it such a bad thing to apply such a wide-spread concept to every corner of life and see if it still stands.