It's a popular saying among people that goes, "life isn't fair" because there are events outside of our control in which we have no control over (ex: race, gender, family). Do you agree with this mindset in regards to where we end up in life?

I vehemently disagree with it based on the following: I'm fully aware that although there are things we cannot control, however, when we are younger, we can learn from our mistakes and that of others in order to grow. Taking these lessons and applying to your life, you become more focused on the big goals later down the line.

This focus allows you to prioritize what's important to you and not be misled like so many others who didn't have the foresight to observe the world around them. Poor schlubs didn't realize they too can be at a woman's mercy for child support or still living at home with the parents and they are in their early 30s with no game plan to grow up.

So I say life is fair. We play a major role in childhood/adolescence which will set in motion our adulthood years and that should be little to no excuse of why we ended up in the soup we created. I've seen it with peers in HS. They didn't see the future as the inevitable, so they didn't plan. Now many have dead end jobs and a few kids.

Where do you stand on this?