Written By Eugene Morgan
“I had to learn to reconcile myself to the unfairness of life,” Milton Erickson
Life is not always fair and we must reconcile ourselves of this truism. If we put effort into something, then a reward should come our way. If we give or make sacrifices for the greater good we should get something in return. When good people work so hard to get somewhere but find that there is nothing at the end of day, that’s very difficult to reconcile.
Erickson learns this early on in his career as a physician when he had to tell the grim news to a young beautiful girl that she’d been diagnosed with a fatal disease and then Erickson treated an older patient who has lived his life as an alcoholic and is in reasonable good health, who may live way into his 80s. Well, Erickson had to reconcile himself to the unfairness of those two examples. Erickson had to close his eyes and increase his scope of his entire career. Because he know he had better reconcile now, because as he grows into his career, he will alway meet the unfairness of life. This is a good lesson we should all live in our own careers and personal life that life is not always fair.