Life Isn't Fair
Dads, entrepreneurs, and football coaches love to say, “Life isn’t fair.”
I would say the opposite, “Life isn’t fair.”
That wasn’t a typo.
When most people say that life isn’t fair, they start from the paradigm that life is suffering. Everything is hard and you just need to suck it up.
Or everything is hard and you need to feel sorry for yourself.
I disagree with the paradigm that life is suffering and everything is hard.
I don’t downplay trials or the cross that God has asked you to bear. Those things are real and they are difficult to get through.
And I’m not going Pollyanna on you. As if most people say, “Life isn’t fair,” because they’re looking at the glass half empty, and I want to look at the glass half full.
If you put all your blessings (including life itself) on one side of the scale and all your hardships on the other, the blessings would far outweigh the hardships.
Life isn’t fair—because there are too many blessings. So many blessings that it’s easier to ignore them than to keep track of them all.
I’ve heard that the average person sees between 5,000-10,000 ads per day, but I don’t remember ever seeing that many. It’s so much that I guess I filter them out.
It’s the same with God’s blessings. Stop filtering them out.
Instead, look at them. Enjoy them. Rejoice that you’ve been blessed with so much.
Plus, if you also count it all joy when you fall into various trials, even the hardships themselves become a source of joy.
This isn’t a reframe. I’m not saying to simply see the glass as half full.
The glass is 99% full! And that’s just not fair.
What do you think,
Joseph