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re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)
Posted on 9/27/17 at 8:46 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Posted on 9/27/17 at 8:46 pm to Eli Goldfinger
My wife loves me, both my cats sleep on my chest at night even my 30lb yes 30 lb baby boy kitty, my dog loves to play fetch, and I can afford to retire anytime I want. Life's good!
Posted on 9/27/17 at 8:46 pm to Mike da Tigah
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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.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 8:52 pm to Eli Goldfinger
We are remarkably similar other than I am retired. Here's the differences:
Worked at 12 as paper delivery, 13 at odd jobs, worked all through high school mostly in afternoons and weekends.
Worked all through college; no scholarship
Finished college in 5.5 yrs
Three kids in college; took some number of years to recover
No liberal arts degree, so I had a degree that was job worthy
Several challenges overcome thru the years
Had a six year streak at one point without missing day of work.
Worked at 12 as paper delivery, 13 at odd jobs, worked all through high school mostly in afternoons and weekends.
Worked all through college; no scholarship
Finished college in 5.5 yrs
Three kids in college; took some number of years to recover
No liberal arts degree, so I had a degree that was job worthy
Several challenges overcome thru the years
Had a six year streak at one point without missing day of work.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 9:14 pm to Eli Goldfinger
My inheritance fortune of 13 dollars was started by my grandfather, a cotton farmer.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 9:20 pm to Eli Goldfinger
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This post was edited on 9/27/17 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 9/27/17 at 9:48 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Born Caucasian. Love it.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:19 pm to Eli Goldfinger
My maternal grandparents were poor immigrants from Denmark who left in the face of WW1 with two suitcases and not much else. My grandfather started an appliance repair business and my grandmother worked behind the counter at a drug store counter. They lived in a shotgun house that was a duplex shared with another immigrant family.
I never knew my paternal grandfather. He left my grandmother and never provided for my dad's family. My grandmother never remarried, but she had four children she raised on a cow, some chickens, and a small garden, an apple, peach and pear tree, plus a pomegranate tree and a pecan tree. The house has tiny and hot. She made money selling eggs and milk, and a few vegetables.
From humble beginnings is all I can say.
Totally privileged.
I never knew my paternal grandfather. He left my grandmother and never provided for my dad's family. My grandmother never remarried, but she had four children she raised on a cow, some chickens, and a small garden, an apple, peach and pear tree, plus a pomegranate tree and a pecan tree. The house has tiny and hot. She made money selling eggs and milk, and a few vegetables.
From humble beginnings is all I can say.
Totally privileged.
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