It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions