Unfair

There is no such thing as fair or justice in this life, I know this. So why am I surprised and thrown off balance when I find that an old friend's path in life has gone to such dark places? What is this raginge sense of injustice? Why do I have this piercing, ragged hole in my heart?
I find myself disoriented and lost, thrown back into a time of my life when potential was something I wasted and had endless supplies of. I remember making plans that I full well believed were possible and inevitable, a course of action to be followed unwaveringly. While I forged ahead and try to attain these plans, forget some, change others, adapt to life, my friend was buffeted by circumstances, unable to recover from mistakes that I could have bounced back from with slight setbacks. Does it really come down to the financial means of a family? Is the future so easily determined? How is it possible that, in a culture that keeps feeding me the line "You can do anything you set your mind to", my friend can't get a job that pays enough for her to afford good health care for herself and her children? Isn't it always about what you make out of life? You can't tell me that it's all about attitude either.
I've never met anyone who smiled more in the face of adversity than my friend. I've never met anyone who can hold her head up under such burdens. Instead I've met people who do nothing but complain at the hand dealt them. I live in a country so rich that the majority of it's citizens can afford to indebt themselves to credit companies for 3 figures. Why can't a single mother get a leg up?

It's just not fair.