Deserve...

there's a word i've been hearing a lot lately, and it's really irritating the shit out of me.

DESERVE

people saying they deserve this, they deserve that...

the definition provided by Webster's says deserve is "to be worthy of : MERIT"

ehh, not much help there.

i guess what bugs me is that this use of deserve that's been going around is akin to "i have the right to..." - and then people rattle off a list of things that really aren't "rights"...

Alrighty, work's crazy, your home life is even crazier and you want to take a paid vacation and get away from it all - you don't DESERVE it. you might want it really bad, but that doesn't mean you DESERVE it.

Yeah, sure, you want a job making fifty grand a year that will work around your schedule and acquiesce to your needs, but you don't DESERVE it.

hell, the more i think about this crap, the more i begin to wonder what any of us really deserves...

*shrug*