Life's not Fair on Sunday, October 13, 2013

Life is Not Fair!

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Life's not fair is wail I hear all the time to justify people being harmed. Everyone totally hates it

when I ask why is life not fair. You are supposed to just accept that statement, suck it up and continue on and I ask why. You aren't supposed to think and above all else: question. Life is not fair because someone made it that way.

You know what, before Elizabeth Warren asked why banks could borrow money at a rate close to eight times less than the old student loans when students getting out of college fuel our economy and banks get bailed out for bad decisions, no one questioned the student loan system. No one bothered to look at most other countries where students not only get a free education but a stipend to live on. Yup, they just said, “Life's not fair.”

I remember when going for my masters, I decided to take on two jobs in the department to make extra money. After all, I was paying for my education by my self and working a full time job plus working for my professor. The administration promptly lowered my salary from my professor so I was now working two jobs at the University for the same amount of money I was making from one the semester before. When I promptly suggested they f' off, the next semester and I didn't need to work any job there, they raised the amount I made working for my professor back to the level of working for two professors the semester before. Life's not fair. The Hell with that, someone in the administration rigged the system so you could only make so much money no matter how hard you worked.

Someone rigged the system so students get screwed on loans. Did you know if your parents have good credit and can afford to pay the bills off in a reasonable amount of time, it may be cheaper to put your college on their credit card than take out a loan. It is almost always cheaper to take out a second mortgage on your house. AND here is the real rigging. You can discharge both those debts with bankruptcy but not a student loan. Life is not fair because someone is making it unfair not because some guy in sky decreed it should be that way, unless he is working for the guys down here rigging the system. Or maybe the guys down here created the guy in sky decreeing life wasn't fair so you wouldn't look at them as the reason.

So my Smile Warriors, your job this week is to make life fairer for someone. If you see someone struggling, help them. A load shared is a load halved. See, you do use math in normal life. It is simple. Last month, George saw a guy with a couple of kids looking at a compressor. He clearly couldn't afford the retail price. George walked out to the van and got his bag of coupons and gave him a 20.00 off the compressor coupon so he could buy it. You don't buy a compressor for fun. You need it to work. Making life more fair for someone is as simple as that. It really is alright to help strangers. It really is alright to talk to strangers.

I know, you just had a scream well up...you can't talk to strangers! Everyone knows that. Really, why? You don't get in the car with them. You don't go home with them. You don't allow them to touch you, but then again you keep your distance from friends, too. Why can't you talk to them? Talk is cheap. Talk brightens everyone's day. A load shared is a load halved. If you were to actually pull out the statistics, more children by a HUGE amount are molested, kidnapped and harmed by family members and their friends than by random strangers. It is actually safer among strangers than with your circle of acquaintances, friends and family members. You don't talk to strangers because that way you stay isolated, afraid to ask for or receive help and guess what, when something happens that could easily have been averted by the help of another human being, life is just not fair.

Are you beginning to see the brainwashing that keeps you hurt, alone and afraid all the time? My Smile Warriors, you are brave, strong and able to go where others are afraid to tread. You are not afraid of your fellow human beings. Good people just need a little encouragement to be better people. Guess what? Bad people just need the right circumstances to be bad and those circumstances are the same ones every predator looks for; prey that is alone, afraid and weakened.

Think about it. There plenty of wildebeest on the African plain. There are also plenty of lions looking for a nice wildebeest dinner. A lion is the perfect predator. So why hasn't the lion eaten all the wildebeests? Because the wildebeests not only stick together and though singularly can't fight a lion, together they can be a formidable enemy and they make friends with the elephant that can fight a lion. No wildebeest has ever been afraid of another wildebeest or afraid to scream for help with the lion. Any wildebeest hurting another wildebeest is quickly facing the whole herd and a few minutes while thinking about his transgression, the lion.

Folks, we are the wildebeests and we have to stop being afraid of each other and the elephants in the room and figure out who the lions are and take measures to be safe, together.

Now there are some things that just aren't fair. I have not managed to plug any cord into an outlet the first time since some idiot decreed there should be polarized plugs. You know, one side of the prongs is bigger than the other side and one side of the outlet is bigger than the other one. I was decrying the fact that with 50/50 odds, once in a while I should win when I realized the odds were a bit more skewed....more like 33% odds of getting it right. Huh? Do the math. If you got the plug lined up, the outlet may be out of line. I swear they make the cords so the way you grab them is naturally twisted in the opposite direction from the outlet. Otherwise, I couldn't always be wrong. When was the last time you managed to stick your USB in right the first time? Next to never? Someone is rigging the game here and I don't know how but I swear I will find out before I die.

 And that my Smile Warriors is my job for the rest of my life.