Misfortune May Be an Actual Blessing

    The old saying “Misfortune May Be an Actual Blessing” means that every bad thing will pass and good luck will follow. Although sometimes we are in adversity, we do not need to become too much depressed because something good may be ahead of us. If we hange our minds and attitudes, we will find that the sunshine comes after the storm.

    Sometimes, it takes us a long time to realize that what we have experienced actually teaches us a lot and misfortune is a kind of luck. When I look back to the past, I find that the failure I have experienced lays a foundation for my today’s life. Most of Chinese students and parents consider the college entrance examination as the turning point of life, not only because our traditional idea is that we receiving twelve-year education and working hard are all for being admitted by our dreamed colleges, but also because it is the only chance for many students who grew up in the remote rural areas to leave their poor hometown and to enter the dreamed college in the metropolitans, which guarantees them a bright future. I screwed up my examination and failed to go to my dreamed college. I was under great pressure at that time because my family, my friends and my teachers cared about my exam results. I was originally supposed to apply for a top Chinese Science and Engineering college. As a result, I had to study at a common economics and business college. However, because of this college, I was brought to the business world and was inspired to study more business knowledge. Because of this college, I had the opportunity to volunteer during the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. Because of this college, I met my boy friend and made a lot of good friends. Afttr studying at this college, I was familiar with the humanities, knowing that without proper management, workers cannot work in such a high efficiency. I found my goals due to studying business knowledge that I would go to set up my own nursing home and heart foundation in the future. I could put what I had learned into practice, and at the same time lend a hand to those who need a help. If I had entered my “dreamed college,” I would not have known how to fulfill my dreams. We cannot predict what will happen ahead of us, but we can believe that misfortune may be a blessing.

 

The Definition of Justice

    According to Aristotle, people actually speak of a partial justice when they talk about justice. One reason is that people pass judgment on themselves and cannot judge correctly in their own case. Justice includes both things equality and people equality. However, people always have disagreement on people equality. Another reason is that people consider they are speaking of absolute justice, but they are unware that what they are talking about is partial justice. The state is not only for alliance, security from injustice, exchange, mutual intercourse, but for a good life, a perfect and self-sufficing life. The law should not only be a surety which is powerless to guarantee a good life of people. Companionship is only the prerequisite of constituting a state. The state is the union of families in a perfect life where people who contribute most have a greater share and who contribute less in one respect, such as wealth, but have the same or greater freedom are inferior in the society. Aristotle maybe think that the purpose of taxing the rich heavily to help the poor is to make a well-being life in the whole society. He thinks that who contributes more needs to gain more in the political virtue. Some people think it is fair to heavily tax the rich just because they earn a lot. Some people think it is unfair for the rich to be taxed more in order to help the poor. All these ideas are based on the partial justice. There is a gap in the society and sometimes it is hard to treat everyone absolutely fairly, so the government has to interfere with the allocation of wealth.