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Student, Content and lifestyle Writer, Poet @ Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA)
Akure, Nigeria
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ENTITLEMENT CULTURE
<p>I feel like there’s something that hasn’t been talked about and shunned with the kind of zeal it calls for.</p><p>Instead of shunning it, we just murmur. We act surprised and shocked, yet uncomfortable with how far it’s spreading. But we still don’t address it with the kind of attack it deserves.</p><p>There’s a disease ravaging our society, and it has led to broken relationships. </p><p>And when I say relationships, I mean the real ones; friendships that are worth it, good connections, and healthy networking.</p><p>I personally have a repelling body and energy toward people who carry and hawk this culture. </p><p><br/></p><p>It’s the entitlement culture.</p><p>We’ve overlooked how siblings, friends, family, and even foes can have this entitlement mindset.</p><p>I think a lot of things cause this entitlement feeling. </p><p>Some are due to trauma: “Life dealt with me and was hard on me, so the world owes me.”</p><p>Some are due to bad background and wrong parenting: “My child must have everything they need” kind of stuff. Then the child grows into an adult who expects everything, who wants to reap even when they didn’t sow a seed. </p><p>Some are due to social media pressure: “People got this from their siblings, friends, neighbors, uncle, yadayadayadayada... I must also get this from so-and-so people.”</p><p>Entitlement culture is like silent pride wearing a beggar’s clothes. </p><p>Nobody owes you their time, decisions, energy, resources, access, or peace. </p><p>If you’re lucky to be helped or favored, you should count it and see it as a privilege; not as your right.</p><p><br/></p><p>And if you’re someone who has an entitlement feeling toward other people... </p><p>You believe that because your friends are ahead, they must come for you and carry you up their ladder; and then you start beefing when they don’t. </p><p>Or you believe your elder brother/sister must perform a particular responsibility for you just because they are older, or because your parents loved them more. </p><p>Or any form of entitlement culture at all.</p><p>(Bombastic side eyes to you.)</p><p>Please dead it. </p><p>It’s very wrong, and it’s not becoming of you to do.</p>
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