Deserved?

What do you deserve? Perk up your ears and you will hear that you deserve almost everything: a living wage, intimacy, the return on your investment, health care, a home, a job, the best today and the American dream.  I've heard  each one of these unmerited entities touted as what YOU deserve.  Au contraire!  What you deserve, your just desert, comes from your effort which will gain merit. NOT an automatic boon.  I know one thing you don't deserve is a gay pride festival, now a signature event, like the one now a yearly institution at the Paris Disney Park in Paris, France.  I also know playing the victim card plays into the hands of a flawed philosophy that 'you didn't build that.'

The Puppy Bowl is coming ! Each puppy will try to win. Right? Who will deserve the prize? Who will merit 1st place?  Who will merely enjoy participating in the fun events though undeserving of a material reward?  No canine  bundle of love deserves anything until the games of competition are over.  Yet every puppy will happily have his day.  Don't you just admire our four-footed friends?