Life's not fair, is it?
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27560)
Philippines
September 20, 2020 3:53pm CST
One gospel story I struggled to understand is about the laborers who worked for twelve hours in the vineyard and complained about why they received the same wages as the others who came late in the day.
I would have complained, too. That's not fair. Twelve hours is twelve hours. Why would someone who worked for just an hour receive the same wage?
Many times we complain about unfairness. We work like crazy and yet the beggars on the streets do not even work and we give them our money.
But that is it. Life is not fair. We are the privileged few. Yet we compare ourselves to beggars who are impoverished.
That alone is unfair to the beggars.
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7 responses
@meowch (2220)
• United States
21 Sep 20
Life is unfair but it doesn't have to be that way. Some people see the glass half full while others half empty. I think changing our views of life thinking optimistically and stop comparing and complaining, life will give us more blessings. In fact, we all create our destiny. We shape our circumstances from the way we think. Things materialize whichever it is because we focus our thoughts on it.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
21 Sep 20
Your inference is absolutely correct, which makes life quite fair.
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@bettydeng5 (1822)
• China
21 Sep 20
Thank you for your response,which let me to stop to complain,and I will change my attitude to be optimistic to meet life, and change my desting.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
21 Sep 20
Yes, the lowly people, being more at a disadvantage in securing jobs or work, deserve to be given more.
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@kaylachan (72456)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Sep 20
No, life isn't fair. It's never going to be. You can't please everyone. That just doesn't happen. If you're the best you , you can be, then does it matter how fair or not the world is?
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
26 Sep 20
But life is already a blessing, or a gift. How could life be unfair?
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
27 Sep 20
@DianneN Without the downs and ups, life wouldn't be life at all.
As we fail, so we succeed. As we grieve, so do we feel joy.
I was watching the aftermath of the havoc that the fire reduced to ashes, people left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing.
Good thing that people have become compassionate, and we don't have to call the unfortunate victims beggars, because shelter and care could be given. But beggars are as many and as real.
That is correct, we must not compare our lives to the beggars. That is not fair. The beggars need compassion. So we help them as much as we can.
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
26 Sep 20
@eileenleyva True, but life has its ups and downs - births, deaths, employment, unemployment, poverty, wealth.....
I have never compared myself to the life of a beggar.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
21 Sep 20
The manna in the desert was only for the day. That is how God wants us to be. Do not take more for tomorrow. Just eat for today.
As St. Francis of Assisi said - look at the sparrows, they live for the day flying in wonder, and the good Lord provides for them, how much more for us?
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@Vicentbayu (81)
• Indonesia
20 Sep 20
it is not important that life is fair or not, the more important thing is that we always try to be fair for everything.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
21 Sep 20
That is wise. Follows the Golden Rule. Be fair and you will be given fairness, too.
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@innertalks (22151)
• Australia
6 Oct 20
The remonstrating against what someone does to us is never good, as we should see that the person holding the load is not apportioning it according to the load, but as he sees fit.
As we see fit is never fair until we can see fit in God's way, but as this story shows, we probably will never be able to see in God's way, and so we will usually be disgruntled, when his way is not our way too.
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
7 Oct 20
You nailed it. Couldn't have said it better.
Thank you.
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@innertalks (22151)
• Australia
7 Oct 20
@eileenleyva Thanks. I am pleased you agreed with me.
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