I’ve wondered about fairness a lot lately.
I’m not sure what it means or who gets to decide.
How does a person figure it out?
If the good truly die young, that doesn’t seem fair… but how would we know for sure?
Oprah had Mark Nepo on her show a few weeks ago and he said a line that has stuck with me:
“To learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we’re given. This is our journey on Earth.”
I have sat with these words for a while now. I feel the truth of them and I have lived the experience over and over. Sometimes what we are given is better than what we asked for, and sometimes it’s less.
I have decided that “fair” only comes into play when we are comparing our experience with someone else’s…thats a fruitless endeavour and one that will rob your joy.
Our life, our gifts, our experiences, our results and our reality are our journey.
The gifts, obstacles, experiences and results that someone else is handed is their journey.
Comparing the 2 to determine what is fair doesn’t even make sense when you remember that we are all on our own journey.
Life isn’t fair and it’s not meant to be.
In the grand scheme of things I don’t think it would help us if it was.