Do you believe that everything you have received and continue to receive in life is what you truly deserve?

[thegreenyogi]

I'm referring to the good, bad and in between.

[WhiteSteve]

I’m very blessed in many ways; I have some very challenging circumstances as well. I don’t think it’s really a consequence of anything karmic; I think it’s just chance. A lot of things make me wonder “why me?”, or “why me via a loved one?” Sometimes things feel like a curse or a punishment. There have been moments where I just wanted to fold up the tent and call it quits. But I think every hardship I’ve experienced has come with some gained wisdom and perspective. And I always try to remember, that as bad as things may seem, there’s always someone out there, multiple, probably thousands, getting devastating, life-altering news today. And today isn’t one of those days for me, so far, with 5h 20m to go. It could always be worse, and there’s enough good stuff past and present to keep my morale afloat.

[Zack-Bann]

I sincerely hope not 😂


Sure I’ve had some good fortune
But it was always balanced out by something bad happening.


I try not to complain too much but then I end up doing exactly that because otherwise it’s like living in denial

[thegreenyogi]

You're not alone... I think complaining is one of those things we all love to do. Lol!

[Friendlybro79]

I think so. It's so hard to know but I love this question. I want to believe we get what we deserve but I have seen good people get so little good in return and bad people get everything.

I think collectively, if we want to and physically can participate into a society we should all feel that we deserve that we want to see as benefitting the majority of people because real suffering to a large degree is preventable. If this were to pan out then why can't we all feel it's appropriate to deserve at least a standard that prevents the suffering of things we can prevent. We won't be able to prevent everything. It's kind of like how can we bridge individual responsibility with collective societal sense of care for each other.

Currently I think we haven't achieved this is because too many think everyone else but them is lazy and undeserving and refuse to say things like, "I might work harder than others but that doesn't mean we should have homeless people or bankrupted over one health event."

[OneViewpoint]

To quote Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven",

"Deserves got nothin do do with it. We all have it coming?

Life in this universe on this planet is largely a series a random events we are forced to react to. Oh we can create the illusion of localized control in limited time and space. But it's really all more chaos than order. And we are only one of the random events.

The outside of a bracelet I wear has this inscription...

"The first and most important victory is to conquer yourself" - Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

The inside has this inscription...

"In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

Sun Tzu saw it all pretty clearly 2,500 years ago. Not much has changed.

[Lynx122]

I don't know I don't really think about what I "deserve". I'm just making the best of my life that I can that's all. I don't really think you can apply deserving to a life. We were all just born here do we deserve something just for being born? You have some positives and some negatives in your environment and your childhood etc. Then you just have to try and deal with that and try and improve your life. I think my life has been difficult but also has a lot of positives and the more I'm growing the better things are getting. What I deserve isn't really up to me to decide. I like the more relaxed approach to life, letting things unfold the way it naturally does.

[tiredpanda]

I don’t really believe that “you get what you deserve” is always true. Sometimes bad things happen to genuinely good people and I don’t think that means they somehoww deserved it. As for me.. I do believe some of the good things I’ve received happened because of my own hard work and choices but I’ve also had bad things happen that made me wonder “why” and I don’t think I or anyone else necessarily deserved them

However I believe that whatever life gives us happens for some reason even if we can’t understand it in the moment. Maybe I’m just being naive and trying to comfort myself but I like to think that difficult experiences teach us something, redirect us or shape us into who we’re meant to become

[SummerSunsets_x]

Personally no, I feel like with how things have played out for me in jobs, relationships etc. I feel like I didn't deserve any of that pain and hardship. I feel like I deserve so much more than what I am getting but why am I, is the question that always lingers in my head. It sucks because I feel like I try so hard you know and still end up falling short. But the more I look back at those situations that I have been through it really has helped grow me into the person I am today. I am a big firm believer that things happen for a reason.

[7Phoenix7]

No. I don’t think life is a perfect reward and punishment system..

Some beautiful things have happened to me that I’m incredibly grateful for, and some painful things happened that I don’t believe I “deserved” at all. Our choices definitely have consequences, but so much of life is also timing, circumstance, luck, and the choices other people make unfortunately…

I think what matters more is what we do with what we’re given.

[stevenkelly]

Not necessarily. I think life isn’t always a perfect reflection of what we deserve sometimes we receive things we didn’t earn, both good and bad. What matters is how we respond to what life gives us, learn from it, and appreciate the good while working toward something better.

[hanyia]

Absolutely not. This would only be true in a utopian society but that’s simply not the world we live in. We just do the best with the hand we’re dealt. A child born under siege did nothing to deserve living a life of death and famine the same way that a child born in extravagant wealth does not deserve to be handed life on a silver platter. It’s simply the hand they were dealt. Be it wealth, familly or even a place to rest our heads at night; we all have to count our blessings while fully aware that just a easily as we have what we are given, it could be taken away.

[FreyaRed]

No. I got good genetics and relatively wealthy parents. Did I deserve that due my deeds? Nope, but I got it.
As recompensation for this luck I got a bad luck curse for gambling. I should never play in a casino, I will lose over proportionally.

[NathanDavis]

not really, no...

there's a good deal and part of chance, circumstance and even favoritism as well... both fortunate and unfortunate events are difficult for me to see them as "deserved"

so... I do see myself as fortunate, because so far, I have been

[ElenaLena]

No.. we live in a chaos and what we have and had is our best efforts to avoid the bad things in the chaos.. plus luck..

[Brandi555]

Wow. This is a difficult question. I’ve had some really bad stuff happen to me that I couldn’t imagine what I could’ve done to deserve it but on the other hand I’ve been truly blessed and again can’t imagine why. Maybe it evens out and I’m supposed to learn to be grateful.

[Anonymous]

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the lord.

I've lived long enough that i'm pretty good at accepting what does or doesn't happen as God's will. I'm not going to say i'm never disappointed. But i try to remind myself God see's the full picture and i do not.

[Phunk_Fenomenon]

no, I seen a lot of people who have worked and struggled less than me living a better life than mines. yet for some reason I keep hearing that hard work pays off

[lilBigPotato]

Well, no, a lot is just random and out of your control. It starts already where you're born and what family you have.

[sage2021]

No, I haven't done anything bad to deserve all of the bad things that have happened to me during my life, that's for sure!

[katiesmuff]

Yes I do! The things I have were not given to me, I had to work to get all of them.

[abc3643]

Of course not. Ask any 9/11 victim about that.

[lightbulb27]

no, don't think so on good or bad. not convinced it's about deserve at all.

[BCRanger10]

No. All that I have is more than what I deserve.

[Jackblue]

No, everything is down to the will of a cold uncaring universe, even if you pulled yourself up by the bootstraps you can find people who worked equally hard, who simply didn't have as good luck

[Staximus]

I don’t think that’s always true. I know plenty of good people who have had bad things happened to them, and plenty of bad people that have had good things happen to them

[Cidknee]

Of course not! The world is in a broken state. Thus the reason for Jesus Christ.
If this was what i deserved id say shoot me!

[genericname85]

i don't believe in "deserving". actions have consequences and good action likely result in positive consequences.

[Shiprex]

I THINK I deserve the things I have because I have always worked towards getting them

[FunkyMonkee]

FUCK NO!!! I deserve WAAAYYYY THE FUCK BETTER than this shit I've been dealt!!!

[RFC1872]

Mostly. I have had some bad luck and some good luck but for the most part it has evened out and been deserved.

[msc545]

No as a small child always bullied by an adult male teacher and I did not deserve that at all. Not one f lucking bit

[strateguy632]

never unfortunately

[Miristheiss]

No, this is an unjust world.

[rgb008]

Yeah, lots of keys and stuff

[KostasKouvalis]

Honestly no, but I'm not gonna complain😂

[Anonymous]

Yes and a little more

[Agape93]

Nope

[_Jenny_]

Nope

[gasman70]

no, I don't

[AgentG111]

Maybe 50/50

[shortster]

Nope