“I deserve it”
Daily Meditation #417–4/18/2023
“I went to school for 8 years and graduated with good marks, so I deserve a great paying job that I love.”
“I am an attractive young man with a nice career and a fit body, I deserve a beautiful woman to date.”
“I’m a smoking hot woman with no real exes, I deserve a ripped guy with a cash-money job and nice car.”
“I’ve been a vegan gym-goer and marathon runner for 10 years, I deserve to live to 100 and have no cancers.”
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The concept of “deserving” is yet another “mind-shackling” concept, like self-accountability, which has been discussed before.
You “deserve” nothing at all.
I “deserve” nothing at all.
No one “deserves” anything for any effort they put forth or “deserves” anything from anyone.
Let me be very clear:
always do the right thing!
Go to work, put your best foot forward, and always give 10 of 10 while expecting nothing.
Date or marry your love, make them breakfast, rear your children, and treat them with great respect and care, expecting nothing.
Eat well as often as you can, get plenty of steps, and ideally practice strength training to make yourself well, but expecting nothing.
(Unfortunately) no hard work is guaranteed to glean a fat bonus. No amount of love or care guarantees your spouse treats you as they should. Not amount of eating right and fitness guarantees you live to 100 or no cancer.
No one deserves anything.
Go forth, doing your best in all things, knowing you never deserve a thing and be free of these shackles.
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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”
