2007-10-19 19:09:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Back in 2nd grade we had a spelling test. A girl copied off of me and when the teacher noticed that the tests were the same, she talked to the both of us. The teacher believed the other girl even though she cheated off of me and I got in touble for it. That totally sucked.
2007-10-19 19:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi Robertra.
Yes, I can remember the day very clearly, even though it was many years ago. It is also an embarrassing story to tell, but I am going to be brave and take solace in the fact that no one knows my real name ;-)
I probably knew, years earlier, that life wasn't fair. For example, when I couldn't stay up, but had to go to bed — those kinds of things. However, one day when I was 11 years old, the unfairness of life became all too clear to me.
My grandmother had asked me how I would like to go with her & my grandfather to Florida. I was SO excited. I hadn't yet been anywhere that seemed important. This was a real trip! I couldn't stop thinking about it for a minute.
Then one day — it was a Saturday — may parents wanted to talk to me. They were alone; all my brothers were out or asleep (the baby). I thought it was odd that both of them wanted to speak to me at the same time, in the first place. Also, neither was yelling, so I knew I didn't do anything wrong. Yet, I sensed trouble, big trouble.
My parents started by saying they knew I would be upset — nothing good can come from a beginning like that. They then proceeded to tell me that I would NOT be going to Florida!!!!!
My jaw dropped open — it really did. They then told me another sibling was going instead of me. Now, strange sounds were coming out of my mouth. I thought maybe one of my grandparents was sick or something, but this?
I am the eldest child. I had a sibling 2 years younger than I, plus another sibling who was 4 years younger than I (plus the baby). It turned out that my brother who was (and still is) 4 years younger than I was going to get to go on this wonderful week-long trip to Florida — and I wasn't!
Right then and there I knew life was not fair. But it got worse, much worse. Then came the reason for the switcheroo. It was because...uhm...because...I wet the bed. Yes, the nightmarish truth is out. I had wet the bed until I was 12 and a half; then it stopped, just like that.
Now, was THAT fair??? It wasn't my fault. I tried everything I could to stop it. I was so ashamed of it. Not one of my friends knew about it. Now, because of it, I couldn't go to Florida. That was not fair.
You, who have been paying attention, may have wondered why my sibling who was 2 years younger than I was didn't get to go. That's right — because he wet the bed, too (so did the baby, but he didn't count). So, the family was left with only one child who did not wet the bed, the third child.
Fortunately, he was my nice brother & didn't make fun of me. He was actually quite sympathetic for his age.
So, that was the day when I truly learned that life was not fair. It wasn't fair that I wet the bed, for who knows why. Plus, I couldn't go on the trip because my parents were ashamed of me, didn't want me to wet the sheets of our relatives.
It didn't matter how much I cried and fought and tried to make deals (like "I won't eat or drink the whole trip"). Nothing I said changed their minds; I was not going, because I was a freak of nature.
Nothing in life was fair. That's how I felt that day, that weekend, the whole week my brother was in Florida. Nothing was fair at all. But some things make up for it.
My brother got stung by a bumblebee on the swings.
I learned about karma, too. Not that any of this was his fault.
But life wasn't fair, was it?
;-)
2007-10-20 03:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by palemalefriend 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never believed in the concept of fairness. There are simply events. Some events are helpful to you, others are not. 'Fairness' is a subjective term that simply refers to a favorable or untenable outcome to a situation.
A true warrior does not whine about the inequities of life, he battles through them.
2007-10-20 02:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by Gee Whizdom™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Still to come, If I m aware always, everything seems fair ... coz I know life is imperfect and that's again *fair enough* for me ... ;-)
2007-10-20 04:49:44 · answer #4 · answered by Neo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not? that really sucks.
At least I think is how Paris Hilton would answer this question.
2007-10-20 13:45:24 · answer #5 · answered by spartanmike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just now, when I read your question. Boy, are you the bearer of bad news.
2007-10-20 02:39:19 · answer #6 · answered by DrNick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the doc held me up by the legs & smacked my @ss.
2007-10-20 02:18:23 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a small girl
2007-10-20 03:52:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋