Entitled

Entitled – to have proper grounds for seeking or claiming something

Salesmen can be pushy, but telling me that I work hard and am entitled to something pushes a bad button for me not a good one. I guess because entitlement is one of the ultimate forms of selfishness in my eyes. It’s saying that regardless of the needs or actions of others this thing is deserving of my resources more then anything else. Whether its giving of my time to watch tv or giving of my money to get a new big tv, using the word entitled is a negative thing to me.

I know people who say that because they work hard they deserve to do …. fill in the blank, but the only think you deserve for working hard is payment for your work and the satisfaction of knowing you’ve done it. Whether you spend that money all on yourself to make your life more luxurious (because that old 46 inch tv just isn’t as nice as that new flat-screen you can hang on the wall) or to help someone else have something to eat has nothing to do with how you made the money or how deserving you are of it. Its all about where your priorities are. Are your desires the most important things in your world?

I picked big things which rub me the wrong way and that I can easily identity. Cars, houses, and other luxurious items are easy for me to point out, but I do wonder where I still feel entitled in my life. What I still feel like I have the right to have.