Entitlement is so easy to spot...in others, and, not so much in ourselves. Perhaps it is a grace when our sense of it is 'forced' on us, often through circumstances that don't work for us as we would have hoped -- simple every-day circumstances like getting a certain kind of job, getting married, having a baby, etc. When one of these is prevented, our sense of entitlement -- whatever we believe we deserve -- is not too slowly revealed.
This may not be as much a criticism, as just a simple reality. And, the beauty is that we can learn to let it go -- a good reminder, from Smon Sinek: