Life is fair

If you don't have anything good to say - don't say it.
Treat others how you want to be treated.
There are no bad people only bad circumstances.

How many of you heard the above statements - so many times - that they are cliches?
But let me tell you my friends, they have been around for so long because it is true.

A lousy situation at work might prompt you into saying something nasty about a colleague or a boss - but it will haunt you when you are out of a job and need their help. Now you know why they say - get references?

Even at the high school level and you apply for college - they say get 3 references from teachers who LIKE you. Why ruin your chances of getting into a college because someone gave you a bad letter of reccommendation?

When something does not go your way - you say "Life is not fair!"
When kids don't get what they want when they want it, they say - Life is not fair!
When you plan every step meticulously and it still does not work out, you say - life is not fair!

But life is fair - You just don't know all the facts.

You can relate it to the Butterfly effect - Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system - this is the scientific explanation.

When you look at it philosphically - there are reasons why things happened - it is always for the best - you just cannot see it right now.

So if things go wrong and you say - Life is not fair, just remember

Life is fair - you just don't know all the facts!