According to UNICEF, over 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world.

Disturbing and grotesque images of children dying of starvation on the news seem surreal in our comfortable living rooms. These tiny children look more like skeletons wrapped in skins. Too weak to move and too tired to protest, they let the flies feed on their listless faces. Their large bulging eyes remind me of those of a dead fish.

I find it hard to describe the feelings and the thoughts going through my mind. How could this be happening in the 21st century - an age of unparalleled progress and prosperity? What lies ahead for these children, even if they survive the famine? What have they done to deserve such brutal fate?

The three year-old who dies quietly from starvation is just as important as the celebrity who kills herself with drugs. In fact, to me, the three year-old is more tragic and significant because he never even had a chance. He couldn't waste his life like so many of us do because he never had a life to waste. Is life fair to him?

Life isn't fair. It never was and it will never be. There will always be people who are disadvantaged as well as those who are privileged. Occasionally the bad guy wins, some good people die young, some people will let you down and not everyone is honest.

Down through the ages, people have always wondered: Why do the wicked prosper, while the innocent suffer? Should we resign ourselves to the fact that unfairness is an immutable condition of human existence? Should we simply attribute injustice to bad luck, fate or karma? Should we consult the stars and wait for the tide to change?

The truth is life will not always be a bed of roses. We live in a world filled with miseries and problems. Sooner or later unfortunate things would happen to us and when they do we wonder why it happened. We may never know the answer. But nonetheless what we have to face, we have a choice to make: either we let the circumstances defeat us and make us depressed and bitter, or we can try to make the best of out the situation. Life will be what we make of it.

Life can be bumpy, interesting, ugly, challenging, exciting and fabulous. There is no room for fairness. Fairness would mean that everything would be the same with no deviations or differences. What would be the fun in that? If you want to truly live, move pass the pursuit of fairness and opt for the pursuit of fulfillment.

When we become too obsess in our fight for fairness, we are actually seeking more frustrations and disappointments. Eventually, we will be so consumed by this unfairness ‘poison’ that we found life not worth living.

It’s important to keep in mind that no matter how unfair it may seem, life will always be worth living. The secret is to always keep an optimistic outlook. You simply have to learn how to deal with the negative while seeking out the positive. Once you’ve learnt this lesson, you will have the ability to still go out and enjoy a full and rewarding existence no matter how unfair life treats you.