The Water You Don't Have to Run Through

"Privileged" is a relative term. Personally I don't consider privileged as necessarily being born into unfair advantage, or something that you shouldn't have. It's about not being born into a situation of inherent disadvantage.

Think of it this way: we all have to run through an obstacle course. This is life. We could choose different paths with different obstacles we may or may not know about. But there's a catch: Some people are forced to run the all spaces between the same obstacles, but through water. The amount of water you don't have to run through is the amount of privilege you have.

If you were born into a situation where you end up with struggles totally outside your control; being a minority, having chronic physical or mental illness, that's not a one-time obstacle you can just push to overcome one and for all, is a struggle that affects literally everything you do.

Some people care and some people don't. But even if you're a selfish person, are you also stupid is my question.

You don't know who of these people you'll need to be at their potential someday. Who has the monly mind that could come up with a cure for an incurable disease you're going to have someday, who will be able to help save your family from a disaster, to talk one of your friends off an edge. You don't know who you'll need to help you, where they are now, or what only they can do for you or your loved ones that all the money in the world cannot buy.

Edited 2019-10-25