Personal Narrative: Fairness Of Life

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Life. The struggle is real. Even though life can be unfair sometimes, the glass can still be “half full!” Everyone deals with the unfairness of life; you just have to choose to be an optimist. Life in itself can be, and is many things: joyful, happy, sad, depressing, abstract, dull… unfair. An example of my life not being fair is when I spend all day cleaning the entire house, and at the end of the day my parents say that I did not do anything all day but sit in the house or that they did it all. To elaborate, the house will be a complete mess when I wake up on a Saturday morning, I get out of bed and notice how horrific it looks, and get ready to start cleaning. I think to myself that my parents have been home more than I have the entire week, but yet the house is not anywhere near clean. Around midday, my father grumbles at what he sees in the house and orders me to do something about, in spite of him not taking a little time out of his day to help clean some of the house, so it …show more content…
For example, in Kentucky, county clerk Kim Davis was put in jail Thursday, September 3, 2015 for defying a federal judge’s order to issue a marriage license to same-sex couples on religious grounds. It was against her religious beliefs to issue those licenses; she had worked there for so long before the law that man and man, and woman and woman could marry came legal. The first amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” She had the right to say it was against her religion; she also had the right to say that she was not going to issue those licenses. The government made this unfair, and made it into something bigger than it should have

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