Ask of any good thing (including the absence of its opposite - horrible, difficult or merely unpleasant or inconvenient things): do I feel entitled to that good thing?
On what basis?
Is it something guaranteed by law?
Is it something I earned?
Or is it something to which I'm more comfortable feeling entitled than admitting I just want it?
Am I justifying what I want rather than cultivating gratitude for what I have?
Am I willing to learn, even to work hard to learn, facts and conditions - starting with the advantages I've enjoyed which countless others have not - to which I might be blind, or comfortably unconscious, because my ignorance helps me feel entitled to what I have?
