Entitlement

Posted by PaulQ |0 comments

The other day I was in the office getting ready for our midweek event when a student walked in to hang out before the night. He nonchalantly walked over to our candy grabbed something and begun eating it. He then opened the refrigerator, then the freezer, then the cabinets. He then found a bag of popcorn and put it in the microwave to begin popping it.

I had to say something. So I asked him what he was doing. "Getting a snack," he replied, as he went back to his task of meeting his "needs." I quickly removed the bag of popcorn from the microwave and threw the candy in the trash and told him that he can't just have things in the office and that he needs to ask for them. "Well, the other leaders always say that I can have things." Well first off I am not another leader and second I highly doubt that they told him he could just waltz into the office and have his way with any thing and everything there.

This event and a conversation I had with my friend Jonny Gas, has had me to thinking about the sense of entitlement in our society today. It led my students to just take things from the office, it led that guy this morning to cut me off on that wave, and ultimately it has led people to follow their own selfish interests (whether financially or socially). Everyone seems to believe that they are due theirs without contributing or putting in the work.

Im sure some of you out their believe it is a direct result of our political system. Maybe some of you feel that it is directly correlated with our lack of biblical truth. Maybe, as I believe, it is a direct result of parenting and the last half a century collapse of our family structure.

I want to hear from you. What are your thoughts on entitlement?