What’s the difference between deserving and worthy?
It’s just a line stuck in my mind “can’t just be deserving you have to be worthy”
And I always wondered. Can one become worthy? Or is that just being deserving”
What’s the difference between deserving and worthy?
It’s just a line stuck in my mind “can’t just be deserving you have to be worthy”
And I always wondered. Can one become worthy? Or is that just being deserving”
Comments
Given the context of the line you’re probably meaning, ‘deserving’ comes from a self-oriented perspective, ie, when things don’t go your way, you whine and complain about how much you ‘deserved’ to win.
‘Worthy’ comes from a more stoic perspective where you take agency and accept that there might be factors and circumstances you didn’t originally plan for, and that no one else is responsible for overcoming those obstacles but you.
The difference is blaming everyone else for screwups, or taking responsibility for your own outcomes, no matter how many difficulties wind up in your way.
Worthy: earned through merit
Deserving: earned through suffering
In general, the two are synonyms, so it’s likely the work in question makes some kind of distinction between the two.
From context, I believe the intended distinction is that if you are “deserving”, then there is something you naturally have a right to, e.g. a Roman citizen deserved certain rights and privileges not because of any attribute of their character, but because of their citizenship. You don’t control what you “deserve”, it’s simply what is the case.
If you are “worthy” of something, you’ve cleared a bar to qualify for it. This might be a set of specific and well-defined characteristics, such as being qualified for a certain job, or earning a degree by completing a specific set of classes; or it might be a vague or ill-defined thing, like being “pure of heart” or “scrupulously honest” or the like. You do have, at least in part, control over what you are “worthy” of, because effort matters. But the flipside is that if you’re unworthy, you’re also at least partially responsible for that–nobody can blame you for not deserving something, but they can blame you for being unworthy of a thing.
So, for example, no one can be said to “deserve”, say, winning the election to be President of the United States. But someone can be “worthy” to hold that office. Nobody can be “worthy” of, say, the right to a trial by a jury of their peers, that’s simply something any citizen of any civilized nation deserves when they are charged with a crime.
Worthy means you have earned something based on your abilities, talents, or good actions. It’s like getting a reward because you did something really well or worked hard for it.
and Deserving means you should get something because you have been through tough situations or suffered, and now it’s your turn to receive something good because of that.
in simple terms
Worthy is something u have earned through your skill or effort.
Deserving is something earned because of hardship or difficulties you’ve faced in ur life .