No matter what your native language is you will hear this expression once in a while or maybe you, the reader, have also used it a couple of times before. I know I did that and I also woke up this morning with this idea in my mind. I don't believe in it but I must have heard it somewhere recently and it got to the surface now awakening my philosophical side.
If we take the "life's not fair" expression to be true from a fundamental point of view then the next thing that comes to my mind is from what criteria?. Who has established a fairness standard that life situations have to fit in in order for our life to be fair or not. No one ever did and will never be able to do that. It's simply impossible to achieve that level of objectiveness to be able to set such type of standard.
Life, in my opinion, is as it is and the most attribute that I can attach to it is unpredictable. That I can definitely say, that life is unpredictable and every time it becomes unpredictable in a way that we don't like it we say it's unfair. It's unfair that the rich are getting richer, it's unfair that we have to pay too much taxes, it's unfair that...etc, etc.
But isn't it unfair that the impala was eaten by the lion yesterday in the jungle? Isn't the poor impala's suffering also unfair or just the human suffering is worth grasping and pondering on. From the same point of view that life is unfair in our case the animal's suffering should be unfair as well. But it's not because it's not our suffering, or at least the suffering of one of our own.
I believe though that our individual lives are far more complex and are actually the result of almost endless causes to simply say that it is unfair. I can't "put them all on the table" and name them but I do believe everything falls into details with an infinite precision and nothing is unfair ultimately. Maybe just our understanding and lack of openness towards the bigger picture is "unfair".
Call it karma, God, destiny, Universe or whatever name one might give to "this thing", I believe that this thing is of a divine mathematical precision and "mathematics is never wrong". Thus "life is fair" even when we think is unfair. Is just our distorted perception that makes it unfair.
Thanks for attention and have a great Sunday!
Adrian