Definition Essay Fair

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Fair is what you think you should have, and someone else should not have. If you do not have something that you really think you should have such as money, a car, a phone, or any other thing that you want but do not have, but someone else has the item, this is my own definition of Fair. Fair is the word people use almost all the time when they do not get their way in life. If somebody else has an item that is better than yours, for example a phone most of the time you say it is not fair for them to have a better phone than you, simply because you do not have it. Fair is just a way of saying that the person that has the item you want is not supposed to have it because you do not have the item. The word fair is usually said by almost everybody …show more content…

People in 1st world countries use this word way more than people do in 3rd world countries. The people in the 1st world countries say that it is not fair because people have something that they want. People in 3rd world countries just think it is not fair that other people have the essentials such as food and drinking water. The other way I think you use the word fair is if one of your favorite sports teams do not win, as if they won, it would have been fair to you, but it would not have been fair to the other teams fan in the same position as you were in. My final statement of the word fair is how the word has changed over the past 30 or 40 years. People use the word fair today as a way of saying you should have what someone else has, or that something should happen because you believe in it, such as the sports team. But older people say how the word fair meant what you had and appreciated such as school, and a roof over your head. But the older people think that the new way to use the word fair is just an easy excuse to say you should have something that you want, even if you did not work hard for what you want, and you just think you should get everything handed to you. This is my extended definition of the word fair, you should use it as saying that if you do not have an item such as a phone, money, or anything else, and someone else has

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