The World Is Actually Fair
By: Makimee Tea
Tags: Enlightenment, Opinion, Sad, Philosophy, Life

I’m sorry but I’m serious…

Pardon the faulty logic of this statement, but to put it simply, the world is actually fair due to several reasons. To warn you, I just need to admit that this is NOT something you should be happy about. If, in turn, the points I’m making are exhibiting an impact, it might appeal to pessimistic ideals. This realization literally placed a cloud above my head recognizing that the world can be that messed up. I hope the mere concept has captivated you, so allow me to build a melodramatic argument as you read on.

EVERYBODY DIES

Obviously, we all die. I’ll be completely honest, while this answer provides a very shallow layer, it is exactly overlooked for that same reason. Death provides the same opportunity for us in the outcome, and while time is not distributed rather freely, it is most definitely paired with losing itself. As we grow as individuals, time will provide a sense of weariness to our lives. Depending on the value we’ve placed, death is the ultimate end product. If we assume that there is no afterlife, then our purpose is driven by death.

Besides all of us being thrown under the conundrum of dying, the idea that things will end EVENTUALLY levels with our uncertainty. Life becomes fair based on this point because we all don’t really know what happens next.

EVERYBODY CRIES

Unless you were born into a robotic family, at some point you must’ve known how to feel. Emotions make the world feel unfair but quantitatively it’s what ironically unites us. Also, fun note, we all have the desire or feeling of wanting things to be fair for OURSELVES. Somehow, we want things to favor us regardless of the time involved. Who doesn’t WANT to feel good? Our desires are what make us fair towards one another. It is what unites our pursuits.

The same thing applies to suffering since we all technically suffer. While others will call their lives meaningful by attracting joys and appreciating gestures, it’s quite interesting to believe that this is associated with being less miserable than being happy. Social isolation can be maddening to a lot of people so I tend to ask myself if being “social” justifies being less miserable.

EVERYBODY WILLS

By principle, we want to strive for things we think we deserve, even to the people who don’t naturally strive are working hard on a different portion. Feeling sorry for oneself, as an example, is a choice an individual reinforces to strive for what he thinks he needs. Pity becomes a bragging right for that individual and he ALLOWS and WILLS it to happen.

I remembered an enlightening conversation I had with a friend on this topic when she inferred that the world isn’t fair because our fingers weren’t fair in a joke. I told her that no one can stop her if she decides to use her FREE WILL to cut off her fingers, allowing things to be fair. Sure it’ll be bloody, but no one can stop her from doing so. She looked at me afterward with her left eyebrow raised. It was a morbid example but it’s a similar factor we all have.

EVERYBODY LIES

We can all be unfair people. We can all be selfish people. We can all be overwhelming, ignorant, apathetic as a people. Furthermore, we have the notion of acting out based on this impulse, this selfishness, this ignorance. The world can be fair because ANYONE can be unfair. It’s merely a construct of perception. If we don’t indulge, we become a victim of circumstance, and if we do, we become players. It’s just a matter of what we can or will entertain.

Change is constant, but so is our nature to respond. Maybe the opportunity isn’t dealt with a fair hand but our choices make it better for ourselves, even for just a bit. The point is, we can all respond efficiently in some way because we can be just as unfair as the others. This makes life fair in the idea of unfairness.

CONCLUSION

Though these are all perceptions, with a negative connotation if I may add, it is however freeing to realize the choices we all could make. With time as a currency, we can capitalize on how we perceive situations, and things can end up better for others through this regard. We can’t really determine what makes things fair at this point, but we can choose to respond with sincerity and acting out accordingly to what we think is right.

Just make sure it has an ethical framework before you start rambling out there…

Thank you for taking the time to read! And try not to act too unfairly to make the world fair.