When logic is defied

Writing about this issue is causing me a lot of pain. I am someone, who's always believed that as you sow, so shall you reap. But, what happened over this weekend has coerced me to ponder. There is this little girl who is my neighbour. Her mother must be 4-5 years elder to me. As school students, we were good friends, but somehow as it happens, we lost track of what was happening in each other's life over a period of time. But what I discovered the other day was heart-breaking. Her 11-month-old daughter is acutely ill and doctors have almost lost hope. They have refused to give medication as they are aware that in a few days' time, she will be breathing her last.
If we go by the karmic theory and state - 'What goes around, comes around', how can we still explain a kid going through so much suffering? What on earth did the girl do to deserve so much pain? Even if we say that maybe the parents have done something wrong and so the child is being punished, that too cannot be applied in this case. I wouldn't say the mother is the best of human beings I have known, but I too am not the best one on this planet to judge her. So, the point is that the child does not deserve so much pain. My heart goes out to her.
I contrast this with the smiles flashing on the faces and victory signs being made. As we all know, there must surely be instances where the candidates have criminal records, scams involving crores of rupees most of which would be the hard-earned money of middle class man, charges of abduction, rape, murder and extortion against them. But they get to live a life of luxury and minimal sufferings which anyone of us would experience.
Even if, we were to believe that her mother sowed something so terrible, a middle class man can never get more gruesome than being little selfish here and there?
But, it seems, just like the world, even God tends to condone the crimes of the elite.
Though this realisation struck me really hard, my faith, just like any other middle class lady, will remain unquestioned in YOU.

Manjiri