Thursday, June 24, 2010

[un]fairness

I live in the magical world of fair.

I think almost everything in my life thus far has been fair, equivalent, and justified. I'm slowly finding out that isn't the real world. I've always known it wasn't fair to other people; I just didn't know it was unfair to me.

I wonder how people handle the unfairness of life so easily, like it's just a way of life. I don't think fairness is a way of life at all. In fact, I think life is so unfair that we should stop labeling "injustices" and actually deal with them for what they are. When a baby dies in an orphanage today, it's our fault. It's not just "the system". One person could have saved that baby.