Entitlement is a curse

There was a time when I used to feel bad for the things that I don’t have. I always had people around me who had much more than me and I felt jealous. I felt that they were lucky to be born in a rich family and it’s because of the money their parents have that they are getting all their materialistic dreams fulfilled.

It’s only now that I’ve started to realize that I was wrong. Being born in a middle class family taught me the art of frugality. It taught me to drive happiness in the most trivial things.

While on the other hand, I have started to think that those of my friends who had all they wanted are actually disadvantaged. Getting whatever is desired without craving for it, with working for it, without shedding tears for not being able to have it essentially never made them realize what things are worth.

If ever something devastating happens. Say a natural disaster strikes and we all have to start from zero again. I think I’ll be winning to those people, because i’ve seen and experienced this world more closely than them. I was not sitting in a car being transported to places but standing in a public transport waiting for a seat to get vacant. Now that none of anyone has anything, I know how to survive and build up from zero while the one who was entitled from the very birth is dumbstruck with this situation.

I want you to understand that the more problems you face in your childhood years, the more limitations that are forced on you, the more you crave for stuff is what teaches you how to get what you want on your own money. It forces you to think of unthinkable ways of making money just because you are desperate to fulfill your dreams.

If you were poor/middle class in your childhood/teenage years. You are luckiest of the lot.

And if you were from the entitled group. I feel sorry for you mate. There’s a lot of learning you’ve missed out on.

Entitlement is a curse. Period.

-ChoubeySahab