: deserve.

my memory has flashed back to a time when i was looking out the window at a stoplight and i saw a little girl on the side of the road with a sign that said "my mommy did nothing to deserve this". at first i was angry at the fact that her mother more than likely made her write that on the sign and than i realized that she was right; perhaps she didn't deserve such an extreme measure of circumstances to her actions or lack there.

in all honesty though, i think "deserve" is such a loaded word. many of us, if not all, don't deserve the opportunities that are handed to us. instead of saying to ourselves "we deserved that!" or "i don't deserve this!", why don't we ask ourselves "well, now that iv'e got it, what am i going to do with it?". now instead of dwelling on something because you "don't deserve it", why don't you put the notion in your head that "it's happening, so i should just go with it and do something with it" because 9 times out of 10 you will come out on top and learn something from the experience anyways. so, don't dwell on the things that you think you don't deserve or do deserve, because it's happening in the present; do something with it.