funny how

“But that’s not fair,” a kid complains.
“Life isn’t fair,” they hear in response.
But why isn’t life fair?

In life, we work on our own projects, build our own legacy. To us, when our work is valued, our life is valued, and the world seems to be in our favor.

We forget that we spent hours on our work only for others to take it in in only seconds. Minutes or hours, maybe, if we’re lucky.

Our lifetime of work becomes only a fraction of other people’s lives. For our entire life to be valued by others “fairly” for the same amount of time we spent creating it, we would all need to live every person’s life.

Life isn’t fair because we can never matter to the world as much as it matters to us.

Life isn’t fair because we only live our own.