Is Life Fair?

[333 words] Is life fair? Do we always have our needs met? It seems like in life we expect to be able to control every thing that happens to us. In a recent Oklahoma high school football game, the referees mistakenly erased a go-ahead touchdown because of an erroneous assessment of a penalty. The coach and the school district have stated, “It’s not fair that these young people should be punished because of a mistake by the adult referees.” They have even filed legal action in district court to try to force the game to be replayed. Regardless of whether one believes that the football team was shortchanged or whether one believes “that ‘s just the way the cookie crumbles,” one should be able to see that this situation occurred because an adult coach did not have the self-control to stay off the field when the ball was live. At…