You Shouldn’t Ruin Happiness for Fairness

Today I heard a great analogy about happiness and what’s fair. It goes like this. You see an ice cream truck and it says free ice cream. You go up and the person gives you two big scoops of your favorite ice cream. You sit down and happily eat your ice cream. Then you notice that the next person who comes up gets three scoops of ice cream. Now you feel cheated and it wasn’t fair. You forget about how happy you were with two scoops and want what the other person has. It just doesn’t seem fair. The lesson of the story is you shouldn’t ruin happiness for fairness. Be happy with what you have and don’t be upset by what someone else has. Count your blessings. Be happy with the fortunes that come your way.