Life is never fair. Unexpected ups and down. Inequalities and imbalances. Ambitions with limitations. Gifts with restrictions. Undoubtedly, life is not fair. Well, Life is as such. With the least exceptions, most of us don't get what we want. We get what we don't want.
The unfair treatment of life. And, when I say life, it is the totality of life and not the bits and pieces of life. If you think, it is work, it is. And if you think it is life, it is. Right from the Omnipresent and down to anyone, everyone is unfair. Or they are selective. When they are selective, they are not totally fair. No absolute fairness as there is no absolute truth.
In every phase, life offers you with a variety of unjustifiable, unreasonable demands and expectations. It also leaves you with unreasonable and unjustifiable means to reach the ends. And those who mind the means don't mind the end, those who mind the end don't mind the means. Incredible! I only remember what my student once asked, "Is there any fairness in this world, Miss Sentha?" Rightly asked. I just smiled.
And the struggle continues. Struggle to reach this and that, struggle to create a balance and never to reach the fairness. In the course of achieving anything in a justifiable manner we find ourselves at the losing end. We lose few things; people, values and principles. A while ago, a friend of mine said, "we will end up losing some people in life at some point in time, so it is okay to lose". He is right. I am bothered about how I loose them more than the fact of losing them. To me, means matters most.
Life is never a fair game. You can't do much about it but to get used with it. "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing that it is not" as Oscar Wild says.
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