Speech
Have you ever caught yourself wondering or feeling that life isn’t fair to you? To feel helpless, angry, and frustrated at life for targeting you again and again. There’s a fear inside all of our heart, that everything won’t be in your favour all the time. Fair by definition means something that is reasonable, just and above all be right. But isn’t right and wrong just an individual’s perspective.
Fairness is an illusion created into our mind that says to treat everyone and everything equally. But fairness fails to recognize individual uniqueness. Fairness is average, not good neither bad. But here we all are trying to achieve excellence.
Ladies & Gentlemen, being fair doesn’t work all the time.
Being fair says to treat all equally. So, by that meaning, all of us should get equal grades, equal pay or even equal success in life. Would that make you happy? What we perceive as fair, in reality, turns out to be anything but fair in the end.
Most of us are entering adulthood and being an adult means making decisions, decisions that are at times selfish and unfair. Every time someone gets a new job, life is being unfair to someone who couldn’t. Every time somebody gets approved for a transplant, somewhere in the world a person dies. And every time life is fair to someone, it balances by being unfair to someone else.
This circle of fairness is endless.
My dad used to tell me, “Life isn’t fair and neither should you be. When you fall, either to stay hurt or rise stronger.” That stick with me. “Research has shown that our brain is biologically hardwired to respond to inequity.” To respond to things that are not fair. So, in the end, life is not fair to us and being fair isn’t always in our favour, but let’s be a little selfless, just a little, every day.
