The power of moving from Entitlement to Gratitude

Entitlement focusses on what you lack or think ought to be yours and what is not happening for you. Gratitude highlights the people who enrich your life and the things that enrich your life and are yours even beyond your deserving.

Entitlement enlarges you (usually only in your own head) and who you think you think you are, and what you need and what you imagine or believe you deserve. Entitlement distorts. Gratitude helps you to see you are part of a whole (a family, a community) and allows the needs and conditions of others to enter your awareness and your experience. Gratitude modifies and delivers you to a beautiful size. 

Entitlement may increase your self-importance in your own mind and in the way some people treat you (it can be very subtle) but it will also alienate you (it can also be very subtle) from those who want to know you and befriend you. Entitlement leads to being stand-offish. Gratitude will make you warmer, easier to approach and befriend.

Entitlement may, for a time, get you what you think you want. It may have others treat you in ways you think you deserve. Gratitude will transform you into who you are unaware you could be. 

Posted on October 30, 2025 at 4:52 am in Difficult Relationships   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL