I have had it up to my hairline with fair!
😯 Ooops! Excuse my mini tantrum. I must be too tired and stressed.
But I am tired of fair. Fairness gets way too much good press.
I mean, really — which of these is fair?
- Mitt Romney is the likely GOP Presidential nominee and I’m not.
- Barack Obama is President of the United States and I’m not.
- Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both have much more money than I have.
- Rick Santorum’s youngest daughter is quite ill and mine is quite well.
- All of the above men have more Twitter followers and Facebook friends than I have.
- Lupito Solano has far fewer computers than I have.
- Lupito has been to Central America way more times than I have.
- Those missionaries have resettlement funds “fed” by their mission and we didn’t.
- More people read Dorcas Smucker’s blog posts than read mine.
- D and E and S have each built a brand new house and I couldn’t if I wanted to.
- My friend’s mind is adrift and mine is still on course.
- All of the above have more cranial vegetation than I have.
If fairness is so important, what will be done for me (or to me) regarding the “unfair” items above?
Why should anything be done? And if anything is done, will that be fair?
Let’s take the matter of wealth.
Similarly, it (likely) isn’t fair that I have more than Lupito has. Should possessions be taken from me until he and I are on the same level? And if that isn’t fair, what is?
I know, Lupito and I should be given of Barack’s wealth until all three of us are equal! But then Lupito would get more than I get — and how’s that fair?!
What is fair? That the three of us be put on the same level with Warren Buffet? If so, what should that level be? Somebody whose wealth is half of Lupito’s? Why not lower? Or higher?
No wonder they say life ain’t fair!
And if life ain’t fair, what’s death?
Actually, fairness is a dreary subject. And the making of lists and scenarios about it, a dreary exercise. (Unless, of course, you’re into Speaking Truth to Toast — then it can be pleasantly entertaining.)
Fairness, envy, covetousness, ungratefulness, self-pity, discontentment, jealousy — what joy-quenching, peace-slaughtering ways to look at myself, at other people, and at life itself!
Fair, the new dumb.
Except it isn’t new.
And it’s far worse than dumb.
So give me just instead of fair and justice rather than fairness.
By the way, did you notice this is built primarily on my logic?
What does God have to say on this subject?
Well, Ann Voskamp gets many times as many hits on her blog as I do on mine, and that is also very unfair. Humph.
Precisely.
Maybe you feel better now; I suppose I should feel worser. Thanks for sharing the misery, Dorcas. 😀