What was your first memories that told you life was unfair. I think mine was in school when a kid lied on me and the teacher believed him. I was put in time out for doing nothing wrong. :bang:
I can't think of a specific incident, but...for a recent example: I'm supposed to be peer-editing a novel-writing project for a girl in my class. I really like the girl, and I want her to have the best...but. She's quite aspergers, and her main character is two-dimensional. She's also rather sexual, but because of the child-like two-demensionalness those parts read as pornographic instead of erotic. I don't know what to say--she wants to be a writer, but this couldn't be published as it is. It might make a very good video game platform, but not a novel, and I don't think she's capable of giving it the depth it would need for that. How is it fair that she can't do the things that she loves to do because she can't develop the depth of understanding to present a three-dimensional character? I think that we always tend to have a "why me" kind of attitude...which is sort of ridiculous. The real question it why NOT me? Why shouldn't I born have been born with heavy ADHD that made my childhood difficult? Why shouldn't I have foot and back problems that make some of my favourite activities a struggle? Why shouldn't I be queer? Those things just happened to me instead of other people. None of us earned it or didn't earn it. I got amazing parents and sisters who love me. How is it fair that someone else shouldn't? It's a random draw, kids. It is not fair; it IS.
In 6th grade I moved to another school and the arts teacher had us paint with tempera on A4-sized pasteboard. At the end of the class, she criticized my work because I had not filled every single corner of the pasteboard. I felt too ashamed to even try explaining to her that my family couldn't afford to buy another set of colors every time I used them up, and my colors had to last the whole year.
