No One Said Life Was Fair

We are all familiar with the phrase "Life isn't Fair". It's painfully obvious when your next door neighbor pulls up in front of their house in a brand new shiny car, or you spend hours working on a paper for a class and receive a C while your roommate does it last minute and receives an A.

We all know the feeling of unfairness for what we feel we deserve because of who we are, what we did, or the type of person we are. However life isn't fair, nor will it ever be. But the next time you begin to covet that neighbor's car think about this: Millions of people throughout the world have no car, no home, hardly anything to eat, and no way of ever gaining these things.

Do you have a warm bed to sleep in at night? Do you have food you eat each day? Do you have a job? Have you received an education? Do you have more than one set of clothes and shoes? Many people don't have these very basic things. In our world of consumerism we often feel like we have nothing simply because we don't have the latest and greatest whatever.

Many of us complain about our annoying sibling, spouse, parent, parent-in-law, etc. What about the people who have lost their entire family? Or their entire village? What about the people that have never felt what it's like to be loved? Thousands of children are given to orphanages each day. These children never get the chance to hear the words 'I Love You'.

Why do we eat hundreds of dollars worth of food only to get fat so that we spend hundreds of more dollars on treadmills, gym passes, and diet products when so many people starve each day.

I'm not telling you to donate tons of money to humanitarian projects or orphanages, I am just explaining that so many people have it so much worse than we do. When you talk about life being unfair think beyond your circle of existence. Then you will realize just how unfair life really is.