I Dare You

You cringe when you think of it.

You grimace when someone acts that way towards you.

Your immediate reaction is an expletive followed by a pronoun and you spend the next hour reminding everyone that can hear your inner voice all of the good things you have done in the past.

"What have you done for me lately?"

It's happened to us all and we've done it to others. It will happen again. I promise.

Here's the deal...it's not a bad thing.

"What have you done for me lately" gives us perspective. It keeps us from living in the past (but still learning). It motivates us. It helps us not take people or things for granted.

"I'll show them." Sound familiar? If your pilot light is on, you will respond accordingly.

Thank you Robert Conrad. Most of us function well with that chip (or in Conrad's case; a battery) on our shoulder.

I get it. It does sting a little because when you do something right the previous 99 times and you failed on the 100th, it doesn't seem fair that everyone remembers the last one but that's just the way it is.

Start another streak. Go ahead and show them.

Go ahead and knock that battery off. I dare you.