Sadly, life is not fair.
Of course, as soon as I type this, I want to redact my saying "sadly". If life were very fair, I suppose I would not be truly happy for anything. I would think every good thing to be something that I deserved, and every bad thing to be the same. The emotions that accompany the natural ups and downs of life, with the mystery gone, would muddy until no clear separation could be found. We humans may be creatures that pursue answers, but in this area, I think we are satisfied knowing the pot of gold will continue to elude us.
Fairness, once I began to dissect it, is quite the selfish requirement. To ask someone to treat me fairly(and in this sense, I do not mean"justly" - I think "equally" sits better adjacent to the term) is, in a subconscious way, telling the person that I consider myself equal to them. A lesser person would not deserve to be treated as one who may be on a higher tier in quality.
Now, reader... don't glare at me so! You are judging me because you think I judge someone else, which is quite funny, should you think of it for a moment. I do know that all are created equal in a human sense, and regardless of color or creed or culture, we all have the same soul potential. To explain my perspective, I think the difference lies in the avenues we each choose to manifest our potential. In a crude attempt to provide you with an example, I offer the subject of Careers. While one person may use their time and energy to become an artist, another may decide to pursue law, and another may clean houses... We all make a choice to invest our body and blood in a direction, and whether we choose north or southeast, we all started at the same place. The "higher tier in quality" I write of has nothing to do with the value of human life in it's biological form. It just means that in a very small and very singular way, one person has the upper hand in that isolated situation.
Think of humanity as a pot of alphabet soup, with each person being a ladle full. The base ingredients are all the same, but some of us can spell "pull" and some of us can spell "clock" as the result of the letters we are given. This doesn't make anyone better than the other since we all have the same material value as far as the worth of flesh and blood go, but there will be moments in life where a situation needs a lot of vowels and the individual providing them will seem successful above those bowls with all the "q's" and "z's". I strongly believe that everyone is brilliant in some area - it just happens that social trends can cloud the public vision as to what may be useful. I am reminded of something Einstein said - "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid". Of course, there will be times that a person's genius may be difficult to notice because their skill or talent has yet to find an opportunity where it can present itself. And going a step further down this obvious rabbit trail, an individual's expertise could remain ambiguous to society because they lack the insight to realize it themselves or the motivation to reveal it, should the chance arise.
Bypassing the hairline fractures I have created in this conversation, let me close the book on my original point before I lose it to mental distraction. At the end of the day, I don't want to be the type of person that makes childish demands for fairness, and so I will continue to treat everyone as a mental, emotional, physical, circumstantial and religious equal.
The real trick will be if I can manage not to grow frustrated at the lack of reciprocation!
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