I was five years old when my parents got divorced. Life isn’t fair. My father struggles with addiction. Life isn’t fair. By the time I turned 21 I had been through numerous hospital visits. Life isn’t fair. I have been here and I have been there. Woe is me. Life isn’t fair.
I could look at it like that. I could sit here and be negative and think to myself ‘why me?’ I just don’t. Life isn’t fair, but why should that stop me.
I have met people that feel sorry for themselves and honestly I think it is pathetic. I do not care that your parents never amounted to anything. That is not an excuse for you to sit on your butt. I do not care that you have been in and out of the hospital. I have too. Take care of yourself, move on. He broke your heart? Get over it. God will place the right people in your life, give it time.
Don’t be that person who says "life isn't fair" as you work a minimum wage job, mooch off your girlfriend just to pay for your drugs and blame your decisions on your family’s past. GROW UP.
I do not feel sorry for you or for myself. There is a little four-year-old girl in a hospital bed somewhere with stage four cancer. There are people in the Middle East that deal with religious wars in their neighborhoods. There are children who lose their parents to drugs, suicide and murder. Life isn’t fair. I knew a girl who had to choose whether or not to get a second double lung-heart transplant at the age of sixteen. She passed away peacefully that same year. I pray for her family all the time. Feel sorry for those who really need the sympathy, not yourself.
I have a loving mother. Three crazy, wonderful siblings. I am a senior in college, graduating a year ahead of my class. My father, my sweet and God-loving father is always striving to make improvements. I have way too many things to be thankful for than to focus on the negative. Each day is different. Some days are better than others. I try to live in the moment, but with a perception of the future. I want to make the best of every day. I do not ever ask, "why me?" What I have been through has made me who I am. It does not necessarily define me, but more or less molds me into the person I am becoming.
Try to love yourself and others more. So many great people have come from the worst backgrounds. Stop being petty and stop blaming your problems on others. Retire the "life isn't fair" saying and adopt another one instead. I prefer the saying "do good, be good, feel good." Life is a struggle and a blessing all at once. If God put you to it, he will get you through it.
Remember to be the change you wish to see in the world.
