Selflessness Leads to Fairness (self-discovery)

I know I have potential.  I know I could be someone great if I just put my mind to it.  But it’s not that simple.  The majority of our young lives we are told we can achieve much and be anything we want, until we are shoved into the real world.  This is not what I had hoped for.  My life is not the stuff of dreams.

When I was a child I wanted to be an actress or a singer, but my anxiety got the best of me.  That and my lack of motivation, or more importantly the area of which my origin story was placed.  I don’t exactly live in the land of opportunity, and because of this I have a sufficient lack of funds and know how to get me where I need to be.  Unfortunately the ever growing population makes it consistently harder to be successful.  Too many people vying for success at the same time, not enough positions for success to satisfy everyone.

In essence life is unfair.  These are things parents and guardians try to shield their young ones from.  They don’t want them to know that the world is unkind, and that hurts like scraped knees or “so and so didn’t share their [insert random useless toy here] with me!” only gets worse.  But sometimes shielding can be detrimental.  At young ages we are told the world is ours, but it’s not.  Never has been.  We share it with billions of other people, many of whom are taught the same.  What a rude awakening when you grow up and have your security blanket of belief ripped away from you.

You’re suddenly forced to come to terms with the idea that you are not the only person who is “special”.  That you’re not the only one with ideas, or the only one who wasn’t taught how to share.  Special snowflakes melt very quickly when they hit the ground, but a group of them they’re the ones that leave an impact.  Everyone has ideas, and every great mind or movement came from standing on the backs of other great ones.

We constantly fight unfairness without realizing how much we need it.  The world will never be perfect.  There will always be unfairness and inequalities to fight, and that’s amazing.  It keeps us alive and humble.  It keeps us working for each other.

The point is that we need to be more about each other than ourselves.  We need to love and care for others which means laying down your needs for them no matter how little you receive and how much you give.  This is what Christ did for us.  His life was extremely unfair.  He could have stayed home and continued being a carpenter making money to live comfortably during his time, but He chose otherwise.  He chose to give his time, money, food, and comfort for others.  And in the end He gave the ultimate price, His life.

Still we choose to point out the unfairness in our lives instead of helping others who are also treated unfairly.  Maybe if everyone in the world looked out for others, as much as we try to look out for ourselves, life would be fair.  Life would be good, and we would never want for anything again.