Today I am struggling struggling.

Am I the only one you sung that to "Rock Party Anthem"  Okay so maybe I am.  I am struggling with a few things today. There is one though that grates on me and makes me irrationally angry.  I just don't understand it. Writing that last sentence, I am not sure I want to understand  it.  I know I don't if that means I will inherit those qualities.

How do people feel entitled?  What is in them that makes them this way?  I know someone that really has an entitlement disease. I am nothing less than disgusted by it.  It brings me to my boiling point.  If your property is where he can use it, he is going to take it and use it.  He will not ask.  He will not thank you.  He will not even acknowledge that the property is yours.  He will take and use it and not take care of it in any way shape or form.  He is somehow entitled to whatever he wants.  I don't care if it is your pliers.  He will pick them up use them and you will never see them again.  If it is something that benefits him, something he wants he will take it.  He will cut a chain and unlock the boat so he has access to it and use.  No questions.  He is ENTITLED.

I don't understand this behavior.  I don't even like to borrow things.  If I need it, I buy it.  If I can't afford it, I live without it.  I am not owed anything.  Just because something is there doesn't mean that I get to use it.  I am always willing to lend a hand.  I have lent a arm and a leg to said person.  Is this the problem?  Where does this entitlement come from?  It really makes me so mad, I can't think.  I am not sure what to do.

I have to call on God because I need to soften my heart from this anger.  I will never understand how one person can take advantage of another.  I will never understand how a person can take things that aren't theirs.  I don't need to understand it, do I?   I need to take care of the parts that affect me and pray for this person.  I need to step back.  This is a hard thing for me to do.  Martin Luther King said it so well, "Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere."

If it isn't yours, don't ask like it is. Always treat other peoples property with the utmost respect.  These are words that I live by.  I think it might be a nicer world if we all did.