RULE TO BREAK
“You’ve a right to be treated fairly”
From early childhood, we start moaning that ‘it isn’t fair!’ And many people go on moaning in the same vein for the rest of their lives. It’s surprising really, because no one ever gives us the least reason to expect life to be fair, but still we complain when it isn’t.
Well, enough. Life’s unfair: get over it. It starts the day you’re born: into the affluent West or drought-torn sub-Saharan Africa, to decent parents or dreadful ones, with siblings or not, into wealth or poverty. Yep, it’s tough, at least for some people. However unfair your life is, I’ll bet I can find someone whose life is worse, through no fault of their own.
I won’t give you endless stories about people who’ve suffered ...
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