What is sharing?
Some people seem to think it is a perfect half; that if each person involved gets the same amount, that is sharing.
I have always thought it was about each getting as close to what they need as possible while allowing the others involved to do the same.
I met a woman with twin girls in grade 2. She told me how she had to get the builder to change their house plans when she realised one of the girls’ bedrooms was 3.2cm wider than the other.
“You know how twins need everything exactly the same – to be fair.”
But I would say that isn’t ‘fair’, that’s just silliness.
And what about The Ex whose idea of sharing out pasta at dinner is to count out each piece, each noodle, so that every plate has the same amount? There isn’t more for those who are hungriest or less for those who won’t eat it all; it seems to me to be ridiculous.
Are people really so detached from life that they think ‘half’ is fair?
Half is rarely fair; all it really is is even.
And that’s just math, not justice.
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