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.

[*WHIMSICAL 0NE*]

I don't think this makes sense in anyone else's head than mine, but my view on Karma has always been what you do to someone else will come back to you. So I don't think that karma has to do with death or cancer, I think it's just the everday acts of kindness (or not being kind) that come back around. You can't give someone cancer, so getting cancer wouldn't be karma. Idk if that makes sense

[HakunaMatata]

No, no, that makes sense, Dee. It's just...the way I've always interepreted Karma is that it goes both ways. Kind acts receive kind acts, mean acts etc. And...it doesn't exactly mean the same way, you know? Giving someone a ride home in the rain might be "paid back" with like, a cancelled final exam. Or something.

I suppose that whole thing was a little rant of mine. I just...don't know, can't stand when people say that what we get, we deserve.

[*Monochrome.*]

"Karma's a bitch"
its my headline and its something i standby.
Karma has never been good to me.I think only once it has and that was to get that scholarship to go to DICC becasue i decided to tell the truth for once in confessions.Idk maybe it was coincidence.

[HakunaMatata]

^Diana, just to let you know, this isn't directed at all to you. I realized while making the topic that you mentioned Karma in your member title, but hopefully you know this was general and not to any specific person at all.

[iDecay]

I don't really believe in karma. I don't think it exists.. Do good and you'll get it in return? Right.. There are so much horrible people in the world. Even if you try to act nice to them, they just bitch at you and don't care for your kindness.

[jennaaa]

I always believed that if you did something wrong to someone or just did something wrong, something always came to get you back for it. I don't think that death or illness's are considered in Karma. My grandfather had leukemia and he did NOT deserve it at all. That was just something that happened, not involving Karma. If that made sense..

[*Duchess of Dork*]

Karma has always been somewhat of a romantic notion to me. It would be as if there's some poetic justice in life.

Unfortunately, I've come to realize (in fairly recent times) that I don't just don't buy it anymore. Doing something good doesn't mean that something good will come to you.

Life just happens.