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Ashish Ranjan
My roommate and I, both got placed from campus sextion. Fair enough, isn't it?
After joining the company, within 2 weeks he was thrown out of the company (Syntel) for no reason. They said it was because of his weak communication skill. He became jobless and had a huge amount of loan. Not fair, right?
He tried very hard, but he had his own ego, so he didn't want to join a company which was ready to pay only pennies. Tried for GATE, cleared, but his rank was not enough to get him into a good college. 2 years wasted. Not fair, right?
Ask any jobless youngster, how difficult life is for him, due to family pressure. A fully-grown man, when asks for money for his living expenses from family, certainly torment for self respect as well as ego. Not fair, right?
Where his college-friends were earning, going on-sites, some of them owned flat, four wheeler and all basic luxury. And he was living in the PG, away from home. And he was watching silently, cursing his luck. Life was not fair in any way for him.
3 years passed, he gave a thought for his own start-up. But in 1 year, that start-up failed. Now, he has no job, no money and a life where society started asking questions like, kya kar rahe ho aajkal (what are you doing these days). And a silence from him used to say everything from what he was going through. Is life really fair?
After all these struggles, one thing never happened: he never surrendered. He kept on trying. The Loan amount became huge from big, but he didn't stop. And finally it (hard work) paid off.
Finally, he got a job of an IT officer in State Bank of India. Quite impressive job where, Company provided him a 3 BHK flat in Mumbai, whereas there was a time when he spent 4 years in dormitory. Now, he was provided every luxury which we couldn't earn after 5 years of job. In one year, his life changed from darker to brighter side, from bottom to top.
A question he kept on asking: is life really fair? No, life is not fair for those who surrender. Keep trying until this world justifies your hard work.
The Rest is your wish. Keep cribbing about your shitty life, while sitting whole day on sofa and watching others' life and their success.

我的室友和我，都通过校园选拔被录取了，这很公平，不是吗？
在加入公司后的两个星期内，他就无缘无故被公司(Syntel)扫地出门，他们说是因为他的沟通能力差，他失业了，身上背负着一大笔贷款，这很不公平，对吧？
他非常努力，但他有他的自尊心，所以他不想加入一个薪水很低的公司，他尝试参加GATE考试，通过了，但他的分数不足以让他进入一所好的大学，浪费了两年时间，这很不公平，对吧？
问问任何一个失业的年轻人，由于家庭压力，他的生活有多艰难。
一个成熟的男人，当向家人要生活费的时候，自尊和自我一定会受到折磨，这不公平，对吧？
他的大学同学们都在赚钱、工作，有些人拥有公寓、汽车和基本的奢侈品，而他住在 PG ，远离家乡，他默默地看着，咒骂着自己的运气太差，生活对他来说一点也不公平。
三年过去了，他开始考虑自己创业，但在一年内，这家初创公司就失败了，现在，他没有工作，没有钱，有人问他“你这些天在做什么”而他的一声不吭，道出了他所经历的一切，生活真的公平吗？
在所有这些挣扎之后，有一件事从未发生：他从未投降。
他继续努力，贷款金额越来越大，但他没有停止，最后，他辛勤的工作终于得到了回报。
最后，他在印度国家银行找到了一份 IT 主管的工作，这是一份令人印象深刻的工作，公司在孟买给他提供了一套三居室的公寓，而有一段时间他在宿舍住了4年，现在，他获得了我们工作5年后都无法获得的一切奢侈品，在一年的时间里，他的生活从黑暗变得光明，从底层到顶层。
他一直在问一个问题：生活真的公平吗？不，生活对那些屈服的人是不公平的，不断努力，直到这个世界证明你的努力是值得的。
剩下的就是你的愿望了。继续抱怨你的低劣生活，整天坐在沙发上，看着别人的生活和他们的成功。

Quincy Larson
Life is not fair. And the most defining fact of your life - where you're born - is completely out of your control.
This is how the world would look if countries were proportioned based on their infant mortality rate instead of their land mass.
If you were born in the United States - where my daughter was fortunate enough to be born - you have an almost 100% likelihood of surviving your first year of life.
If you are born in Afghanistan, there's a 15% chance you won't even make it to your first birthday.
For the 140,000 babies that die every year in Afghanistan, the world is a very unfair place.
The truth is, life isn't fair for sure.The world we live in is destined to be an imperfect one.

生活是不公平的，而你生命中最具决定性的事实--你的出生地--完全不受你控制。
如果各国根据其婴儿死亡率而不是其土地面积来确定比例，那么世界将是这样的：
如果你出生在美国——我的女儿有幸在那里出生——你有几乎100%的可能性在生命的第一年存活下来。
如果你出生在阿富汗，有15%的可能性你甚至活不到你的第一个生日。
对于阿富汗每年死亡的14万名婴儿来说，这个世界是一个非常不公平的地方。
事实是，生活就是不公平的，我们所生活的世界注定是一个不完美的世界。

Akshay Kamthan
My friend mom died of cancer at age 34, he was just 11 years old then. Soon his father also left, he was 17 years old then.
He was brave, never cried in front of me although I knew he was sad.
He has a small brother so after school he started working at a call centre to earn a living, he also joined a b.com course in a govt. College where teachers hardly come just because he wanted to earn a degree and that was the cheapest option available. I told him many times I could help him but never once he took my help.
He wanted to be a doctor but he could not afford to become one.
Now look at me.
I am blessed to have my parents, I get hot home cooked from my mother everyday. I get to buy new clothes through my father's salary. I have two sisters but I don't have to be burdened with responsibility because my mom and dad are there to take care of them till I establish my career. I am an engineer now, my dad paid my college fees which was in lakhs. They call me daily to know about my health. I ignore their call sometimes because I am "too busy" playing games or roaming around with friends.
I wanted to become a pilot, an actor, an artist and what not. And yes I can afford to become any of that still.
You think life is fair?
The only thing this life teaches us that we should cherish everyone who care about us and never ever ignore them. Life is really hard for some people only we don't realize it.

我朋友的母亲34岁时死于癌症，那时他只有11岁，不久他的父亲也离开了人世，那时他17岁。
他很勇敢，从来没有在我面前哭过，尽管我知道他很伤心。
他有一个年幼的弟弟，所以放学后他开始在呼叫中心工作以谋生，他还参加了一所公立大学的学士课程，因为他想获得一个学位，而这是最便宜的选择，我多次告诉他我可以帮助他，但他从未接受过我的帮助。
他想成为一名医生，但他负担不起。
现在看着我。
我很幸运，父母健在，我每天回家都能吃到母亲做的热腾腾的饭菜，我可以用我父亲的薪水买新衣服，我有两个妹妹，但我不需要承担任何责任，因为我的父母会照顾她们，直到成家立业。
我现在是一名工程师，我父亲为我支付了大学学费，几十万卢比，他们每天给我打电话，关心我的健康状况，我有时候会忽略他们的电话，因为我“太忙了”，忙着玩游戏或者和朋友到处玩乐。
我想成为一名飞行员、演员、艺术家等等，是的，我仍然可以成为那样的人。
你觉得生活是公平的吗？
生活教会我们的唯一一件事就是，我们应该珍惜每一个关心我们的人，永远不要忽视他们，生活对有些人来说真的很艰难，只是我们没有意识到。

Aini Zia
Life is brutally unfair.
I had a very close friend in my highschool. I will not reveal her name but she was the best human I have ever seen. She was ambitious, energetic, fun loving and studious.
But let me tell you why I am mentioning her here, in this question. She was an orphan. First her father met with an accident when she was just 7 years old. Post that her mother died because she was not able to come out of the shock she got after her husband's death. There was only one brother left, who was her family. They spent their childhood together with their grandfather who took all the expenses of their education and living. Her brother grew up and went to other city for job and she was left alone. Her brother lost interest in her, he didn't even meet her for years, didn't send a single penny although she was her only family. He denied all her responsibility. She used to cry a lot. Then another shocking incident took place. Her grandfather, who took all her expences, died. She didn't get food, nothing. One of her father's sister kept her in her house after the request of other relatives. She used to beat her, curse her, force her to do all her daily chores. All she got was a day old dry chapati to eat. One day her uncle came and promised her that he will arrange school fees for her.
She got admission in my school. She became my friend. She told her heart breaking stories to me and wept. I consoled her but I was not able to do anything for her. I felt how luxurious life I am living, then also I am complaining 24×7 about everything. She brought dry bread to school which sometimes had fungus over it. I used to get furious when I saw that. Then I somehow arranged to bring two tiffins, one for me and one for her. I introduced her to my mother. She often visited my house. My mother used to give her some money for her expenses.
Sometimes she saved a few pennies and bought gifts for me. I scolded her for doing so but really her love for me was out of this world.
We are still friends but there is no contact because she went out for further studies. Here is an image of a gift she once gave me, a Maybelline baby lips lip balm.
I still keep it as a memory and an evidence of our beautiful friendship.

生活是残酷的，不公平的。
我高中时有一个非常要好的朋友，我不会透露她的名字，但她是我见过的最好的人，她有抱负，精力充沛，爱笑风趣，勤奋好学。
但让我告诉你为什么我在这里，在这个回答里提到她，她是个孤儿。先是她的父亲在她7岁的时候遭遇了一场事故，之后，她的母亲也去世了，因为她没能从丈夫去世后的打击中走出来，她的家人只剩下一个兄弟，他们的童年是和祖父一起度过的，祖父承担了他们所有的教育和生活费用，她的哥哥长大后去了其他城市工作，而她却被抛弃了，她的哥哥对她不管不顾，多年来他甚至没有看过她一眼，没有寄过一分钱，尽管她是她唯一的家人，他否认了对她所有的责任.....
她曾经大哭一场，后来又发生了一件令人震惊的事情，承担她所有费用的祖父死了，她没有吃的，什么都没有，在其他亲戚的要求下，她父亲的一个妹妹把她关在自己家里，她经常打她，骂她，强迫她做各种日常琐事，她所得到的只是一天的干粮，有一天，她的叔叔来了，向她保证会给她安排学费。
她被我的学校录取了，她成了我的朋友，她向我讲述了她那令人心碎的故事，并哭了起来，我安慰她，但我不能为她做什么，我感觉到我的生活是多么的奢侈，而我还在抱怨每一件事情，她把干面包带到学校，上面有时还会长着霉，我以前看到这个总是很生气，我设法带两份午餐，一份给我，一份给她，我把她介绍给我母亲，她经常来我家，我母亲经常给她一些钱作零用。
有时候她会省下几便士给我买礼物，我骂了她一顿，叫她不要这么样，但她对我的爱实在异乎寻常的温暖。
我们仍然是朋友，但没有联系，因为她出去深造了，这是一张她送给我的礼物的图片，一支美宝莲婴儿润唇膏。【图】
我仍然保留着它，这是我们美好友谊的记忆和证据。

Tashi Doji
“Life is valuable things on earth without it nothing can be done”. Sometime life take us in darker way and some time it take us in brighter way but whatever it all depends on individual decision. Yes, life is fair when we are fair to ourselves and life is unfair when we cheat ourselves. Some time I personally believe to the wordings “god help those who help themselves”.
Life is fair because those people who is dedicated, committed to their plan are reaching their goals and those who remain lost remain constant. Life pays only to those who deserve it. There is nothing to feel depress thinking that life is unfair as it all up to you weather you want fair life or not.
Different people have different perception about life, some says life gives justice according to past generation deeds means karma. Some says is all depends on the law of country and some strongly belief life depends on our presents deeds means the hard work and dedication we have towards our plan. The above mention are all verifiable and we have to accept the fact.
I want to conclude saying that life depends on your deeds and your frx of mind so always believe in god, be dedicated and be focus then only life will be fair to you.

“生命是世界上宝贵的东西，没有它，什么都做不了。”
有时候，生活会把我们带向黑暗，有时则会把我们带向光明，但这一切都取决于个人的决定。
是的，当我们对自己公平时，生活是公平的; 当我们欺骗自己时，生活是不公平的，很多时候我个人都相信“自助者天助”的说法。
生活是公平的，因为那些有献身精神、致力于自己计划的人正在实现他们的目标，而那些仍然迷茫的人没有改变。
生活只眷顾那些值得拥有它的人，认为生活不公平而感到沮丧是没有意义的，因为这完全取决于你是否想要公平的生活。
不同的人对生活有不同的看法，有人说生活根据上一辈子的行为给予的，也就是因果报应，有人说这一切都取决于国家的法律，有人坚信，生活取决于我们所做的事情，也就是我们对计划的努力和奉献，以上提到的都是可以证实的，我们不得不接受这个事实。
最后，我想说，生活取决于你的行为和你的心境，所以永远相信上帝，要有奉献精神，要专注，那么生活才会对你公平。
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Dylan Woon
This was me presenting in my university in Malaysia, several years ago.
In some sense, I am privileged.
I had access to the Internet, formal education and do not have to worry about basic shelter, water and food.
In some sense, I am underprivileged.
I am not born rich, I am not as good-looking as the Hollywood stars and definitely not coming from a royal background.
Is life fair?
No, and that’s the reality.
So, what can we do?
Well…
If we are unprivileged, we work extra hard and extra smart.
If we are privileged in some way, we lift people up.
As I am writing this, I am certainly aware that the lives of the extremely-underprivileged can be tough. I’ve seen them with my very own eyes.
However, instead of mentally resisting unfairness, it’s more constructive to play our parts and make our world a better place, together.
After all, everyone starts from somewhere.

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这是几年前我在马来西亚的大学演讲。
从某种意义上说，我是享有特权的。
我可以上网，接受正规教育，不用担心基本的住所、水和食物问题。
但从某种意义上说，我又是弱势的。
我不是天生富有，也不像好莱坞明星那样英俊，更不是出身皇室。
人生公平吗？
不，这就是现实。
那么，我们能做些什么呢？
好吧。
如果我们没有特权，我们会更加努力的工作，更加聪明地工作。
如果我们在某些方面享有特权，我们就能提升别人。
在我写这篇文章的时候，我当然知道，极度弱势的人的生活可能很艰难，我曾亲眼见过。
然而，与其在精神上抵制不公平，更具建设性的做法是我们各自发挥自己的作用，让我们的世界变得更美好。
毕竟，每个人都是从某个地方开始的。
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Hkon Hapnes Strand
Life, as a naturally occuring phenomenon, is neither fair nor unfair. Over time, living organisms that are better at competing for natural resources and preying upon others are statistically more likely to survive. There is nothing fair or unfair about this. It’s just what happens when there is a biosphere with individual entities that are dependent on energy to endure.
The human species has proven to be exceptionally successful in the competition of life. So successful, in fact, that the vast majority of us will have all the resources we need by default. This has given us time to reflect and invent the concept of fairness. We have tried to create an internal system where each and every one of us will be given equal opportunities to survive and endure.
Have we succeeded in creating a perfect system that’s fair for all? Of course not. But it’s getting better and better. By pretty much all indicators, our society is constantly improving in the ways we want it to improve. Life is fairer than it’s ever been.

生活，作为一种自然发生的现象，既不公平也不不公平。
基于统计学，随着时间的推移，更善于争夺自然资源和掠夺他人的有机生命体更有可能生存下来，无所谓公平或不公平的，生物圈中的个体依赖能源生存，这是必然的结果。
人类已经被证明在生命的竞争中异常的成功，事实上，是如此成功，以至于我们中的绝大多数人默认拥有所有我们需要的资源，这给了我们反思和创造公平概念的时间，我们努力建立一个内部制度，让我们每个人都有平等的生存和生活。
我们是否成功地建立了一个对所有人都公平的完美制度？当然没有，但是情况越来越好了，从几乎所有的指标来看，我们的社会正在以我们希望的方式不断改善，生活比以往任何时候都要公平。
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Awdhesh Singh
Life is what it is.
It is the definition of the word “Fair” that is the problem.
Please remember that life is a creation of Nature (or God), while the word fair itself is a human invention.
Nature follows the law of the survival of the fittest
Fairness means treating people equally without favoritism or discrimination.
Thus fairness goes against the basic law of nature. It, however, sells well in this world because most people feel that they are treated unfairly.
Can you treat people equally when they are not equal.
How can you treat Gandhi and Hitler equally when their actions were different?
How can you treat man and woman equally when their biology is different?
How can you treat good and bad people equally when their deeds are different?
How can an organization treat an intelligent and a stupid employee equally when their abilities are different?
The greatest hypocrisy of human being is that they won’t even notice when they receive a privilege. However, when someone else receive any privilege, they cry foul and say that they are being treated unfairly.
Since a society has to reward people with excellence so that more and more people give their best, the allegation of unfairness is bound to be labeled by those who are left out in the race.
Since you can’t win every race of life, you are bound to feel that the life is unfair to you most of the time.

生活就是生活。
问题在于 "公平 "这个词的定义。
请记住，生命是大自然（或上帝）的创造，而“公平”这个词本身则是人类的发明。
大自然遵循适者生存的法则，公平意味着平等地对待人们，没有偏袒，没有歧视。
因此，“公平”违背了自然界的基本规律，然而，公平的概念在这个世上很受欢迎，因为大多数人觉得他们受到了不公平的待遇。
当人们不平等的时候，你能平等地对待他们吗？
当甘地和希特勒的所作所为大不相同时，你要如何能平等对待他们？
当男人和女人的生物学特性不同时，你要如何平等对待他们？
当好人和坏人的行为不同时，你要如何平等对待他们？
当一个组织里聪明的员工和愚蠢的员工的能力不同时，你要如何平等对待他们？
人类最大的虚伪是，当他们获得特权时，他们甚至不会注意到，然而，当别人得到任何特权时，他们却大喊大叫，说自己受到了不公平的待遇。
由于一个社会必须奖励优秀的人，这样才能让更多的人发挥出最好的能力，因此，“不公平”的指责必然会被那些在比赛中被抛弃的人所标榜。
既然你不可能在人生的每一场比赛中获胜，你必然会觉得生活在大多数时候对你是不公平的。

Aitijya Sarkar
I recently spent three hours with a man who makes a total of six thousand rupees each month.
A family that's poor and lives in a broken down building with a tin-thatched roof, he has less than you do, today.
He'd been inviting me to drink for months now and I finally said yes.
By the end of the night, I was glad I did.
Because the man — the man was such a beautiful human being.
That's what astounded me. It just didn't make sense.
His life was a tale worthy of a book, so many losses, a tale from the forgotten underbelly of Kolkata — a place where the rich never visit and the poor thrive in.
Three months ago, he saved a young boy from certain death to be hit by a car in the process.
As he lay there surrounded by a pool of blood, no one came to pick him up.
Not even the little boy who he'd tried to save.
They left him, and when he regained consciousness his wallet and phone were stolen.
He'd be in the hospital for months after and his family would then incur an incredible amount of debt.
He had a father who'd never been kind to his wife, or his two sons, yet this man somehow found the strength to tell me, “You never get to choose your parents.”
A heart that has been trampled on for years and years past.
A friend who was murdered.
A girlfriend who left him when it was time to marry.
A brother who worked two jobs to feed the family and pay off his father's sins.
A mother, not so young anymore, beaten and broken by this cruel world.
And him.

我最近和一个每月总共挣六千卢比的人呆了三个小时。
他家很穷，住在一栋破旧的房子里，屋顶是茅草盖的，他比你拥有的还少。
他邀请我喝酒已经好几个月了，我终于答应了。
到了晚上要结束的时候，我很高兴我这样做了。
因为这个人——这个人是一个如此美好的人。
这就是让我震惊的地方，这根本说不通。
他的一生值得被写成书，他遭遇了那么多的苦难，这是一个来自加尔各答被遗忘的底层的故事——一个富人从来不去的地方，而穷人则在那里茁壮成长。
三个月前，他把一个小男孩从死亡线上救了下来，在这个过程中他被一辆汽车撞了。
当他满身是血的躺在那里的时候，没有人过来接他。
甚至那个被他拯救的小男孩也没有。
他们离开了他，当他恢复意识时，他的钱包和手机被偷走了。
之后他要在医院里待上几个月，他的家庭也随之欠下了一笔惊人的债务。
他有一个从未善待过妻子、善待过两个儿子的父亲，然而这个人不知为何找到的力量，他告诉我，"你永远无法选择你的父母"。
一颗多年来一直被践踏的心。
一个被谋杀的朋友。
一个在要结婚的时候离开他的女朋友。
一个为了养家糊口和偿还父亲罪孽而打两份工的兄弟。
一个不再那么年轻的母亲，被这个残酷的世界打得遍体鳞伤。
还有他。

By the end of that night, I'd very little to say.
I sat in front of him with a bottle of rum and coke and we shared silence once he concluded how his life has been so far.
On most days, I can sing poems and talk so wonderfully about hope, and faith, and kindness but that night — that night my voice failed me.
His eyes — I wish I could describe what they told me.
I think that's when I realized.
Why he'd asked to speak to me, spend time with me, and drink with me.
He just needed company. He needed to be heard. He needed someone to hear his woeful tale of sorrow.
He needed — someone.
I said, “Do you think life is unfair, Dada?”
I asked him — because everyone knows him to be this kind and gentle human being who always helps everyone.
I wanted to know what drove him.
I wanted to know how could you still be kind when the world has been nothing but cruel to you.
To learn. To understand. To share it with the people I meet who tell me that the world is cruel and unfair.
That's when he says, “Bhai, if I tell you, you won't mind will you?”
I say, “Of course not.”
He says, “Only the rich have time to think about whether life is fair. The poor — people like us — for us life is just what we do.”
This blew my mind, so I ask, “What do you mean?”
He says, “If people like us sit down to think whether life is fair — we wouldn't be able to feed ourselves. Because there's no other way. We just do because we have to.”

那晚结束时，我已经没有什么可说的了。
我坐在他面前，手里拿着朗姆酒和可乐，他总结自己一生从出生到目前为止的生活状况后，我们都沉默了。
在大多数日子里，我可以唱诗，可以美妙地谈论希望、信仰和仁慈，但那晚——那晚的我让自己失望。
他的眼睛——我真希望我能描述出它告诉我的一切。
我想那一刻我才意识到，为什么他要求与我谈话，花时间和我在一起，和我一起喝酒。
他只是需要陪伴，他需要被倾听，他需要有人听他讲述悲惨的故事。
他需要—— 一个人。
我说："你觉得生活公不公平？"
我这么问他，是因为每个人都知道他是一个善良、温柔的人，总在帮助每个人。
我想知道是什么在驱使他。
我想知道，当这个世界对你残酷无情的时候，你怎么还能保持善良。
我想学习，想去理解，想与我遇到的那些告诉我世界是残酷和不公平的人分享它。
这时他说："巴伊，如果我跟你说真话，你不会介意吧？"
我说："当然不会。"
他说："只有富人才有时间去思考生活是否公平，穷人——像我们这样的人，对我们来说，生活就是我们所经历的一切。"
这让我大吃一惊，于是我问：" 什么意思？"
他说："如果像我们这样的人坐下来思考生活是否公平——我们就无法养活自己，因为没有其他办法，我们这么做只是因为我们必须这么做。"