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even at my age of 67 it still stings to know that life, and the govt is NOT fair....far from it....
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I’m not going to touch the idea of a government being fair, cherry, but as for life, I’ll guess that you were never a golfer. Occasionally, you’ll hit the most magnificent shot that hits a sprinkler head and takes a sideways jump in a completely wrong direction and ends up in a poor and undeserved spot.

Other times, you’ll hit a dreadful shot that deserves to come to rest in a pond or somewhere in the forest, never to be seen again, but it hits a stone or a tree and is deflected back into a great but equally undeserved spot. It doesn’t take even a week of playing for a golfer to quickly discover that golf is not fair, or even meant to be so ... just like life.

I think golfers learn this sooner than some due to the harsh and solitary nature of the game. Its unpredictable bounces have parallels to life’s bounces, though without the specter of death. It sounds hyperbolic, but playing golf has probably made me a more adaptable and cheerful human being.