re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)

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I had two parents who loved me and are still together, who taught me right from wrong, taught me to give respect first if I expected respect to come my way, to live by a moral code, and made me work for what I wanted, but gave me what I needed in life, including a good education around good kids who also had two parent households and who cared for their kids as well. Most of all though, even though I may have deviated at times in my youth, their living examples stuck with me like glue so that I knew what was right and wrong, and it always lit my way back to my good senses.

I grew up in a time where saying sir and ma'am wasn't an option, but mandatory.

I grew up where being punished to stay in your room was the worst kind of punishment because everyone was outside playing, and so because there was nothing to do inside, we developed social skills in how to get along with others, and paid dividends for us later in life.

I grew up when parents would kick you out the house in the morning to play, but you better be home before the street lights came on or that's your arse.

I grew up in a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone, and you couldn't get away with much or someone would call your mom and tell on you for being somewhere you shouldn't be, or doing something you shouldn't be doing.

We'd get dropped off at the skating rink in the morning and picked up in the late afternoon, and nobody would give it a second thought.


I'm not gonna lie. I had a really good childhood. I am very blessed, and I know there aren't a lot, especially today, who have it as good as I and we did back then. They may have more stuff and money, but not the other intangibles we enjoyed. In that sense, we were filthy rich.

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