Is Someone Getting the Best of You?

Let me start this off by saying I've had a bad week with lots of setbacks.  I won't get into it, other than to say that we all have times like these.  Everything was coming up roses a week ago, now it's all coming up shit.

As a result, I've been slacking off on just about everything.  Today, this song popped up in my playlist. It happens to be one of my favorites, but I never really heard it before today.  I think there's a double entendre in the title.   The question is a good one, and on the surface, it sounds like the classical definition of "getting the best of someone" -- outdoing, overcoming, outwitting.

However, there's another meaning in there.  Is someone getting the best of you?  Are they getting the best you they can possibly expect?  Today, I realized that question was very relevant -- my friends and my family and my job and my passions and my future plans were getting anything but the best I could give.  They were not getting the best of me.

Why not?  Even when things aren't going right, why can't I still go out there and give the best of me?  Shouldn't that be exactly the time I give the best of me, so that I have the best chance of turning it all around?   It's hard, but if improvement were easy, we'd all do it.  I think it's time I embrace this song and continually think: "Is someone getting the best of me?"  If nothing is getting my best effort and attention, then I'm doing something wrong.