I
want to make believe that all is fair and equal but sometimes I am in doubt if
life is really fair. Is there really
such thing as just lucky? Why are there
so many who seem to be fully blessed despite of their bad attitude while there
are some who have been long striving, suffering and enduring but still trying
end meets end. I really want to believe
in a fair world but I cannot understand why I can’t have the convenience that I
want. Am I sinner to deserve this? Do I have great sins and those people whom I
know are not guilty? I am not in the position
to ask these things because I do not know every single thing in someone’s
life. But I am searching answers why
some people are well-off while others are not despite persistence, prayers and
kindness.
We
know it is happening, some people are so lucky earning 1,000% more than the
minimum wage earner. Of course it is
maybe because either the nature of work, length of service, competence, works
attitude, and yes, good character. But
given that, there are financially lucky despite their unpleasant attitudes and
there are unfortunate who struggle so hard in spite of living their life
fairly. Sometimes, it is not just the
kind of work, tenure and competency to reward with this hefty sum because in reality
there are people who have the same work, same years of working, same skill and
most of all kind heart but receiving way below the decent remuneration. Where is the fair world? It is difficult to defend for people will say
you really do not know what these good and not good people are undergoing. They will say everything has reasons.
I
know some people receiving attracting compensation and benefits yet they are
known difficult people or disgusting but they are blessed money-wise. And I feel it is unfair. Okay, maybe they are doing hidden great noble
things that we (or me) cannot see but the fact I know their unfaithfulness to
their spouse or how bad they treat other people or how boastful and conceited
they are yet enjoying the perks of well-off, I cannot help but to ask why these
people are still lucky and blessed while me who is trying to be honest, help up
to my capacity, treat others fairly is not as lucky and blessed as these people? I am not saying I am the
purest heart or less sins, in fact I admit that I have petty sins. But when I see well-to-do disdainful while I
am not, well-to-do politicized people while am not, well-to-do trickster while am
not, I can’t help but to feel it unfair.
I
should not judge others. It is not me to
say I’m good, kind and the righteous or who is dirty and who is not. It is not right to speak your own good, and
it is not good to compare yourself but then you see yourself and your colleague,
I cannot help but to ask why I cannot get the same luck. It is not to doubt the plan of the God but it
is a feeling of assessing yours. It is
not envy or even grudge but a realization, and not to complain but just to
express conception. I am near in an age
where getting old is almost at reach so when can I get the abundance that I
worked so hard and prayed for long? When
can I enjoy the life of earning as much as those people who are earning double
or three times bigger than me? I’ve got
response – “in the right time”. But I’m
about to sign off my career very soon, when is the right time then? Maybe not destined? Maybe not meant to be well-off? Then I feel unfair.
The
old saying says the more you earn, the bigger you spend because the more your
earnings grow, the more your necessities are.
Does it mean these people need to earn big to keep family’s big
maintenance, children’s pay in exclusive school, huge bank obligation, and
etcetera? But these are their choices. And it says too that whatever we need
will be given and if not it means we do not need them. This hanged
a question in my mind that if what only given is what we need only, it
concluded me to think of those unfortunate deprived to experience materials of
life that only selective well-off can enjoy.
Why not both equally experience such thing? In real talk are people receiving much higher
than us, not just much higher but really so much higher, and we know we’re just
the same except their nasty attitude.