The Rebel Black Dot Song o' Being a Better Man

Hans Zimmer, "As Good As It Gets" from As Good As It Gets: Music from the Motion Picture (The Last Angry Man)

Commentary: This week's series of R.B.D.S.O.T.D. was inspired by a line from James L. Brooks's underappreciated & heartfelt 1997 romantic comedy feature film, As Good As It Gets. The misanthropic & obsessive-compulsive novelist Melvin Udell (played by Jack Nicholson) says to his beloved, the single mother & waitress Carol Connelly (played by Helen Hunt):

"You make me want to be a better man."

Ask yourself what in your life makes you want to be a better man (in the gender-neutral sense of the word). Whatever that is, strive every day to be the better man you want to be. Work to overcome or go around whatever stands between you & being that better man. Be not afraid, be not discouraged. Be a better man.