Expectations and Entitlements - Pissing Me Off

I cannot hold back my frustration any longer. The water pressure has been building up like the Hoover Dam after a monsoon and the wrath is being unleashed.

If someone were to ask me what is your biggest pet peave, I think it would be the following:

People expecting something when you have given no indication that you want to give it, that you have thought about giving it, or that they even deserve it.

I am serious. I am done.

If you come fishing in my pond, you ain't getting shit.

I used to be the type of person who would say anything to passify, coddle, cajole, pamper someone if it made them feel better.

Those days are gone.

Now are the days of honesty, straight-forwardness, and maturity!

I will no longer allow fishing in my pond of compliments. The water is being drained and fences are being put up. The fish are no longer there. You are casting your line into a dead pond, a dry well, a desert if you will.

Now for anyone who can't pick up on it, I don't deal with unrealistic expectations and entitlement. Everyone needs to realize that the only thing they are entitled to in life is their own thoughts and feelings. Everything else is left up to the fate.

Which is better?

...A compliment that you ask for or one that is freely given?...

...Something that is forced or an unexpected surpise?...

I think people need to wake up...stop asking for shit you don't deserve and stop beggin for crap that you really don't need.

Be yourself.

Like yourself.

And fuck everyone who doesn't appreciate you for who you are.

But don't and I mean don't come begging, asking, pleading, graveling, expecting, or pushing for something from me that is selfish or self serving in nature.

I won't put up with it anymore....

P.S. - to clear up any confusion - this comment was inspired by some idiot no name I talked to online tonight in Dallas :-)