not to be a debbie downer, but

if you grew up wealthy, well-to-do, middle-class, or even just “comfortable” please recognize how lucky you are. this isn’t to take away from all the other shit you may have gone through, let’s not pretend that money buys happiness, but in many ways it does guarantee a certain peace of mind. 

growing up in poverty, i think, probably sort of ruined my life and my family’s lives and i see the echoes of it and the ramifications of it every day and i don’t know if we will ever truly escape from it and it SUCKS.