What Do You Deserve?

Recently, I was listening to Howard Stern intervew Sylvester Stallone.  Sly was promoting his new Rambo 4 movie.  Howard was asking Sly about his “crazy ex’s”, which included the rather notable trifecta of Janice Dickinson, Angie Everhart, and Brigitte Nielsen.  Stallone had dated all 3 of these women at some point in his life, and all 3 are somewhat infamous for being completely wacked out of their skulls.

Howard was asking Sly how it is that a famous, rich, handsome, celebrity man like him would stay with these troubled women for any amount of time, and be monogamous with them, when the presumption is that Sly could easily go out and get any woman he wants.  Why put up with the drama?  I don’t remember Sly’s exact words, but he said something about how when you’re younger, you “think you deserve somethings”, because you “think you don’t deserve any better”.

Oh.  My.  God.

Back in the 80’s when Stallone was on top of the world, in the prime of his life, even he had doubts and fears working on his mind.  Brother, if you’re like me, you’ve probably often thought to yourself that to be someone like Sly Stallone would take all of your problems away!  If you were a rich celebrity, you could get all the women you want, get invited to all the best parties, and have a much better life.  But apparently even Sly has had those moments of doubt, even at the time in his life when the brother appeared to be on top of the world…

 So my questions for today, for you and for me, are:

“What do I deserve?”

“Am I putting up with things in my life that don’t make me happy, simply because of my unspoken belief that I don’t deserve anything better?”

“Am I accepting a woman’s unacceptable behavior, simply because of my unspoken belief that I can’t get a better woman?”

“Am I failing to pursue my dreams and fantasies, because I harbor doubts about being worthy of achieving those dreams and fantasies?”

“Can I see how I’ve made decisions in the past that have actually perpetuated my own unhappiness?  Can I think of any time that I was responsible for creating an outcome that made me unhappy?”

 Think about it.  See if you can come up with anything.  I know I can.

GR