Life isn't Fair

I used to hate it when my parent would tell me that life isn't fair. I still get this feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I hear these words. People, when they say things like that, never really stop to think about what they are saying. What they need to realize is that life ISN'T fair. There ARE starving children out there that could use many things we take complete advantage of. It brings tears to my eyes to think about how much we as Americans have and how much we complain if we can't have what we think we need. All we need is food, water, and clothing. And even clothing is unnecessary. God created Adam and Eve without clothes. They were perfectly content with it until they were consumed by sin. 

There are children in  countries suck as Uganda, Thailand, and Rwanda, that are starving, and that have absolutely nothing to call their own. 

There are people in California dying of obesity.

There are kids in southern africa and Asia that have no shoes at all.

I personally own enough to use for my entire family, and probably more. 

Is life fair? Is it fair that we live in our luxurious homes with swimming pools, and hot tubs, and eight TV sets, while a good chunk of foreign population barely has something to sleep under during a storm?

This is the reason I cannot stand our country. Sure, we are free. But what do we have, really? We have an overabundance of materialistic things that completely unnecessary. We have people dying from EATING TOO MUCH. What we need is poverty. I don't mean poverty like 'oh no, i need to buy more shoes because i don't have a pair that goes with this.' I mean REAL poverty. 

The way I see it, with poverty comes understanding. And with poverty come respect for what we have. 

We will never know what we have until we see how those people who have nothing live. 

So no. Life ISN'T fair. But thats because America is doing NOTHING to help it get there.