What ever happened to teaching the reality that "life isn't always fair"? (pardon the pun!) It's a great disservice in preparing our children for adulthood if we lead them to believe that they will always encounter "fairness" in a world that can't accept that there are different paths to the same destination. "Their way" is the "right" w…
What ever happened to teaching the reality that "life isn't always fair"? (pardon the pun!) It's a great disservice in preparing our children for adulthood if we lead them to believe that they will always encounter "fairness" in a world that can't accept that there are different paths to the same destination. "Their way" is the "right" way regardless of the destination. What a terribly self-defeating attitude.
As much as I would love to experience "heaven on earth", that happens only during fleeting moments which help to inspire my personal commitment to reflect love, compassion and empathy to whomever I encounter in my day to day life. That is often the best I can do while living in this, sometimes cruel and un-empathetic, world.
It seems that we all, until we come to understand better, live with "rose-colored glasses" in order to survive those who don't "do onto others". It's not a reality we can escape as we grow into adulthood but we, as individuals, can do our best to brighten the corner of someone's experience on a day-by-day basis showing the way of love and fairness by personal example.
What ever happened to teaching the reality that "life isn't always fair"? (pardon the pun!) It's a great disservice in preparing our children for adulthood if we lead them to believe that they will always encounter "fairness" in a world that can't accept that there are different paths to the same destination. "Their way" is the "right" way regardless of the destination. What a terribly self-defeating attitude.
As much as I would love to experience "heaven on earth", that happens only during fleeting moments which help to inspire my personal commitment to reflect love, compassion and empathy to whomever I encounter in my day to day life. That is often the best I can do while living in this, sometimes cruel and un-empathetic, world.
It seems that we all, until we come to understand better, live with "rose-colored glasses" in order to survive those who don't "do onto others". It's not a reality we can escape as we grow into adulthood but we, as individuals, can do our best to brighten the corner of someone's experience on a day-by-day basis showing the way of love and fairness by personal example.