Friday, February 19, 2010

I Deserve

I thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard throughout my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. Thanks to money and fame I didn't have to go far to find them. I was wrong. I was foolish. I didn't get to play by different rules.

-- Tiger Woods



I have noticed that along with the things I work hard at...is a belief at times that I, too, deserve something. This seems pretty profound...a misunderstanding to be sure, but something of a great discovery about the vagaries of the ways we seek our independence.