XXIV. Entitlement
It can be a simple occupation that you must show up to work at everyday. For most people, they show up, complete their job or tasks and then go home. They are not there to make friends although they are friendly. They are not there to be everyone’s caretaker although they will help others. They are not there to be in other people’s business yet they will talk to someone when someone is speaking to them.
And even this is frowned upon by the entitled individual, who feels as if everyone should be exactly the way they think every person they meet should be in their mind. Normal people do not walk around believing everyone should be the thing they imagine. This is something that’s only done by the truly delusional. Some of you may not know the difference yet, so let’s take this for a metaphorical example. Most people imagine they can fly, and if they’re on a tall building, mountain or structure, they still imagine they can fly but they know they cannot actually fly. The entitled individual imagines they can fly too, and when they’re on a tall structure, they really continue to think they can fly and will jump off to their death. Entitled people are delusional. They really think what’s in their mind is real or is supposed to be real. And what on earth can we do to curve the rants, raves, attacks both physical and mental, and shenanigans of the entitled person that believes for a fact that your time and your energy and your attention belongs to them? Let’s move into the other element of the entitled because the entitled has many different forms. That person that is in other people’s business. This is entitlement too. I’m not talking about a post on Twitter. If someone put a post on Twitter or any other social media whether opinion or personal, people will respond if they want to. I’m talking about the person who parks at the store, the person strolling through the mall, the person parking in their driveway at their apartment, the person walking their dog or just going for a walk, the person sitting in the library reading or reading in the park, the person walking out of the store with their merchandise; all these people that are doing these simple daily activities experience the entitled in some awful way. All these people have had the police or security called upon them for no reason.
Now we have come to the part where you’re probably saying to yourself, toni, can you be any weirder, why did you write this shit? Because, I have a solution. The entitled don’t know they are entitled. They don’t know they’re delusional. In order to stop the negative affects on a good day of an entitled person they must first recognize themselves, and then afterwards they can simply get therapy to handle their delusions. People like this easily slide into a delusion, a daydream is a dream, you know it isn’t real. A delusion is something that people believe to the point they will go after it as if it’s real or try to make it real.
The activity is very simple. All everyone has to do is read the scenarios below and they will realize whether they are entitled and have delusional issues.
First one: If you see a person, standing or sitting in a spot in a place located indoors or outdoors, and you care and become concerned; YOU ARE AN ENTITLED INDIVIDUAL.
If you see a person, dancing with no music playing while on the sidewalk on some street, and you go over there, point a gun, go get your guard dog, call 911, or all of these; YOU ARE AN ENTITLED INDIVIDUAL. You think you know what normal looks like or believe you can police people’s behavior.
If you see a person running with a big-wheel down the road and you run after that person, tackle them down and take the big wheel, YOU ARE AN ENTITLED INDIVIDUAL AND A THEIF. Minding your own business would have prevented this.
If you see a person walking out of a store hastily with clothes in their hands or in a bag, and you tackle them like a linebacker; YOU ARE ENTITLED, YOU JUST COMMITTED ASSAULT and ARE GOING TO JAIL AND WILL POSSIBLY BE SUED.
Most of you have not figured out the cure to entitlement yet, so I will write it here. Normal is not whatever you think it should look like, sound like, or be in your mind. The cure to entitlement is to stop thinking you represent normal and normal has one image; it doesn’t. And in order to practice this cure, simply mind your own damn business. An entitled person is first entitled to someone else’s business by thinking someone else’s time, energy, mind, attention and all that, belongs to them because they exist. This type of thinking is what must stop. Once this mentality has been stopped then the entitled person can have a truly normal existence with everyone else that’s having a normal existence, and we can try to live together peacefully.