Day 268: an overused saying

"Life's not fair". This used to piss me off as a kid, partly because of the cognitive dissonance -- um, mom, we're socialists, right? So aren't we trying to make it as far as we can? And also, the fact that life's not fair means we shouldn't try to buck that trend? Bah. I think my sister is much better at trying to make things fair, to make things balance, for her daughters, without just lazily saying "life's not fair".