Life is damn unfair..

especially dedicated to R***

For no matter how you look at it, life is NOT fair. It never was, still isn’t and never will be.

Even Bill Gates said so: Life is not fair, get used to it!

Life is all about survival. And survival is all about competition. Life is a competition by design and we were not all created with an equal opportunity to compete in the first place.

In life, some people were born with a rotten Poker hand like this.

I’ve come to the realization that life is like a game of Poker. You were either born with a really good hand, born with just enough to possibly bluff your way to the winnings, or born with a terrible hand thus having to fold early. While the game of Poker is intrinsically unfair, at least you get a second round.

The game of life, however, is not so forgiving..

Because of genetics, some people will be better at that than others – and that is the frightening reality. When you consider all the people in the world, you have to consider not only genetics, but the environment that factors into what makes these people the way they are. Because of these two factors, there will be people in the world that are genetically predisposed to having a really hard time at life, like when:

When you weren’t born fair skinned

Bob Marley said it – Black people seem to have enslaved their own minds.

There is this massive cultural stigma that attached to being dark skinned. The harsh reality is that even well meaning dark skinned people have to either jump through hoops to prove their worth to the people who have already doomed them to failure, or be good at playing football (or other sport) to win over the respect of the rest of the world. Anyway you look at it, black people people are damned one way or another. Life’s not fair.

When you weren’t born genius

Do you recognize these men? Not one of them has an MBA.

Being educated does not correlate with being smart. There are millions of people in the world who have the highest levels of education and are broke. Then again, there is a far smaller number of people who have a natural talent for making money who are comparatively uneducated. They were born with a gift, which you don’t have it, yet! I know that wasn’t pleasant to hear, but life’s not fair.

When you weren’t born beautiful

Pretty people were born lucky. That is the hard cold truth. People like pretty people even when they’re rotten. Unattractive folks by comparison seem to have more natural enemies, especially if they don’t have a sweet personality or a brilliant mind, or some other asset to balance out the aesthetic deficit.

Beautiful people are talented just by being beautiful. In some cases they can make it in life just for having a pretty face. People tend to forgive the fact that their other assets aren’t so great when looking at an incidence of genetic poetry. It is only a pity that such things only last while they’re young.

If you weren’t born beautiful however, then it is hoped that there is some other talent hidden away in your DNA that will save your soul. The sad thing is that many people were born in this position and have ultimately lived a relatively meaningless life and have died having contributed nothing to humanity other than statistics. See, life’s not fair..

When you weren’t born talented

There is a select, very small set of human beings that were born with remarkable talent. They make up a very tiny percentage of the human population and are obviously at the far end of the Bell Curve of human intellect and genius. Their very existence is proof that inequality is real and again, life’s not fair.

When you weren’t born rich

Being born poor is one thing. Being born poor with positively no means of escape is a horrifying realization that only turns the people afflicted to what is often the only available source of escape: Evil. And thus how poverty becomes a crime. Don’t blame them too much. Life’s just not fair for them.

Umm…. Has it seep into your sub-conscious?

Get used to it! Life is damn unfair…. Nobody ever said that life would be fair. We were never promised a fair life. We were never promised a great life. In fact we were never promised anything at all.

Life isn’t fair, life just is.

As I am told by the world, when ‘life just is’ how ‘it is’, life gives you another two choices:

1. Accept it

or

2. Fight it

Or said another way, you can be happy or you can be miserable. Because in order to be happy-you must accept, for the moment, exactly the way life is and exactly the way life isn’t. Give up the fight, and stop wishing it were some other way. And in the space of acceptance, inside of surrender to what is, look another way and be grateful.

Yeah…anyway, I’m grateful for the green trees and blue skies. Grateful for sharing laughter with family, friends, and colleagues. Grateful for all the experiences that have made me into the kind of person I am today, and for people who are journeying with me….

Let’s end it here. Life is damn unfair, but be happy anyway…