“Unforgiven”
Released Aug. 7, 1992
Directed by Clint Eastwood

“Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”

  This line from Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven” is one I think about a lot. Through our lives, we may hear about people saying, “you deserve this” during success, and “you don’t deserve this” during failure and heartbreak, and I think about that line uttered during the climax of the 1992 film. So much of life is out of our control, and our lives can be changed by something we had nothing to do with. Whether you deserve it or not simply doesn’t matter in the face of circumstance and reality, it just is, but it still doesn’t stop us from drawing meaning and making our own stories today just as these characters did in the Wild West.   