How to make life fair.

You may have noticed: I'm obsessed with fairness. I think that life SHOULD be fair. I know it isn't. I know that most things aren't fair, but that doesn't matter, they should be.

It's a losing battle, trying to make everything fair. You end up sacrificing a lot, because you can't take advantage of things if you want them to be fair; you have to close the loop holes, you have to reduce the unfairness that's in your favor.


It's like getting the wrong change from a cashier. If you get more change than you deserve, you should give it back. It's only fair. If you get too little, you complain, right? If you're fair, you need to be honest. If you aren't honest about getting too much, then you shouldn't be upset when you get too little. Do they balance out in the end? Maybe. But better to just be fair, right?

It's a losing battle, like I said.

But some battles don't need to be won. They say that all that is required for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ('men' here defined as people, not necessarily males). The truth of it is that even if you can't win, sometimes you need to fight. The fight is what matters.

Put a stick in a river some time. Putting in the stick doesn't change the flow of the river. The river just flows around the stick. But that doesn't matter. Once you've put in a stick, others might see that it's been done, and then they might put in a stick. When enough sticks have been put in, you've got a dam. You've changed the course of the river.

But it required that first stick. So you need to stand up, you need to fight for what you believe in, even if you never win. Because maybe, just maybe, someone will see your stick, and they'll add their own. And together, eventually, the world will change.

And life might someday be fair. If we fight for it.