You're Entitled

Sometimes we forget we don’t need permission. We think that entitlement is a haughty and pompous word, but then we beat ourselves up because we feel we’re not entitled. But you are entitled…

You’re entitled to find happiness and to create happiness.

You’re entitled to be creative.

You’re entitled to try and to not try.

You’re entitled to rest and to run hard and fast and long.

You’re entitled to do great, and you’re entitled to suck.

You’re entitled to be yourself.

You’re entitled to be different.

You’re entitled to feel fear and to feel brave.

You’re entitled to feel fear again.

You’re entitled to follow your new interests.

You’re entitled to find your own spirituality.

You’re entitled to protect yourself.

You’re entitled to do what you want.

You’re entitled to start your own thing and to end your own thing.

You’re entitled to put your ideas out there.

You’re entitled to be accepted, and you’re entitled to be rejected.

You’re entitled to stop and to keep going.

You’re entitled to be you and to find you, because YOU is who you live with for life.