The beautiful delusion of fairness. The naive assumption that everyone is trying to treat everyone else with courtesy and respect.

I went through the first couple years of my life expecting others to believe the same. Ridiculous! I should be given a little slack; I was just a kid. The sad truth didn’t hit me until later. The understanding that others were bigger, smarter, stronger or more capable than me wasn’t comfortable. It hit me like a punch in the face, literally.

Fairness is as silly as the idea that violence never solved anything. Wars and armies have used violence over the course of history to solve problems. I don’t know if it was always fair. Genghis Kahn comes to mind. Definitely used violence and the fairness of conquering most of Europe is questionable.

I stopped expecting fairness. It seems ridiculous in the face of reality.

Daily writing prompt

What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?

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