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"If you don't like something, change it."
I always had my seniors tell me as a kid when anyone said that something wasn't fair:
"LIFE ISN'T FAIR".
I was always pretty pissed off when people told me that, not because I was being an entitled little brat who wanted some stupid lollipop (Although maybe I was in one instance, who knows), I think, but because of the fact that nobody before me in what was obviously a big domino-chain of falling, formerly failured, free of fairness folks saying this ubiquitous phrase never seemed to stop and think and especially act upon the following:
"Well, why don't we make life fair?"
Which is what I like to reply with, as I have since I was a kid. It tended to elicit a facial reaction of jaded insecurity and a depressing verbal reply that made not a lick of sense to me back then. It only started to make sense when I started to study psychology and sociology.
I think that a big problem we have is that "Life isn't fair" is absolutely proverbial while something like "Why don't we make life fair?" whenever anyone brings up the so-called unfairness of life really isn't proverbial... Yet.
"LIFE ISN'T FAIR".
I was always pretty pissed off when people told me that, not because I was being an entitled little brat who wanted some stupid lollipop (Although maybe I was in one instance, who knows), I think, but because of the fact that nobody before me in what was obviously a big domino-chain of falling, formerly failured, free of fairness folks saying this ubiquitous phrase never seemed to stop and think and especially act upon the following:
"Well, why don't we make life fair?"
Which is what I like to reply with, as I have since I was a kid. It tended to elicit a facial reaction of jaded insecurity and a depressing verbal reply that made not a lick of sense to me back then. It only started to make sense when I started to study psychology and sociology.
I think that a big problem we have is that "Life isn't fair" is absolutely proverbial while something like "Why don't we make life fair?" whenever anyone brings up the so-called unfairness of life really isn't proverbial... Yet.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou
US author & poet (1928 - )
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