Entitlement

There's a level of entitled that we always feel when asking people for favours, that we don't talk about enough. This level is so bad that we tend to wish bad on that person if they don't agree to helping us out. Like it's normal for people to get excited when something bad happens to you, just because they had earlier asked you for a favour and you said no.

_{photo by Annie Spratt}

To better explain my point, I will be telling you guys a story of something (that wasn't that serious) that happened between I and my brother many years ago that came to mind when I was thinking about this topic.

You see, many years ago when we still were little kids, there was this particular evening when I was cooking some noodles at home, and my brother had begged me to give him some but I had refused. I had told him no, that I needed it all for myself and he had left after he noticed that I really wasn't going to give him any.

When I was done cooking, I had taken my plate of noodles to the living room to sit with everyone else and enjoy my delicious meal, when I realized that while cooking the noodles, I had forgotten to add the spice that came with it.

The moment I noticed this, I had cried out and everyone's attention in the room immediately turned to me. When my brother heard what happened, he had immediately began to laugh at me. To everyone else, they thought he was simply laughing at the entire thing because he felt it was funny, but between myself and him, we both knew the only reason he was laughing, was to mock me for not agreeing to give him some in the first place.

He became happy because now he knew that I won't be getting the one thing he had begged me for, he was happy to see me lose that which I had refused to give to him.

Now while that might not be a big deal, the lesson behind it is, because it shows how entitled many of us feel sometimes when asking people for favours, to the extent where we tend to wish evil upon that person just because they told us no.

It's not right, and when asking for favours, we should always have it at the back of our minds that it's a 50/50 chance of us getting that favour or not.