Do Not Be Ashamed Of Your Privilege

Use it wisely.

It is up to you how you use your privileged resources. Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash

I used to say that I don’t want to owe anything to my parents. Until I realized that I owe everything to them anyway.

I used to frown at the thought of ever asking them for money to buy my future house. Now I realize that it is thanks to the house I was raised in that I became the person I am.

I used to be ashamed of the privilege of coming from a family that will always grant me a safety net, whatever I do. Now I understand that instead of allowing such a gift to be consumed with shame, I should just take it, say “thank you,” and leverage it in the best way I can.

I don’t know, is it just me? Or are more of us — “the privileged” educated upper-middle class millennials — living in a conviction that whatever we do with our lives, we should achieve it with our own bare hands, getting them even dirtier than we need to, just to prove to the world that we are capable?

I see this notion that you are the sole creator of your own success. Everywhere. I hear it in the voices of people criticising leftist policies and social support for those who weren’t lucky enough to be born into nurturing environments. These critics say things along the lines of:

“I don’t see why I would give my taxes to those who aren’t capable of taking their lives into…