My parents have used their wealth and exercised their freedoms facilitated by their over-privileged position. Their decisions and those of their peers has led them to employe and use nannies and other highly qualified childcare specialists. Some may consider this a great thing and a boon but it has led to a lesser connection than desired with my parents and the same can be said for many of my peers. This may lead to an impression that I feel sorry for myself . . . but I do not. I know and understand that there are also huge advantages to the way I was raised and who did the raising. Although I try to remedy the insufficiency with my parents, it is difficult to create a relationship when we did not have a strong foundation based on care and nurture at the onset of my life and developement. I also fear the impact this will have on myself as I mature and have a family of my own. Given that I was not the recipient of close parenting, I have to ask myself how I can provide it due to my lack of personal experience with such parenting style. I have to ask myself how I will know if I am doing it correctly or if I'm doing poorly. Of course, the answer is I cannot know that I am unless I bring in a childcare specialist. If I do that, I run the risk of doing the precise same thing as my parents.
Perhaps the most difficult thing about being over-privileged is the way in which everything becomes easy to get. This leaves me with a life in which there are limited motivations, I am not motivated by money in order to achieve specific goals and rewards which can be purchased through financial resources are unlikely to stimulate my thoughts. This leads to a type of boredom that is difficult to explain. Several of my peers that are in a similar position have moved towards drugs and alcohol as a way of creating excitement in the life. This leads to a life with little perceived meaning. I do worry about my friends' future as they are wasting their lives in a search for meaning and literally risking their health and lives in the process. These may be problems that appear superficial. However, they are real and defined issues nonetheless. While I may not take drugs and drink alcohol, I do feel the lack of presence of my parents and wonder what I will do to bring meaning to my life. As such, I clearly use, rather than misuse, my over-privileged status.
To further drive the point home that I am full aware of my over-privileged status and the good and bad things that come with the same, a brief review of my history and when and how I became self-aware of my privilege would be wise. The first time I realized I was privileged was when I was twelve years old. I had personal tutors who used to come directly to my home and teach me for all of the subjects that I was to learn and remember. My parents didn't have enough time to even spend a minute with me and my books. As I grew older, I started having conversations with my peers and the discussion eventually shifted to the subject of tutors. A good many of my peers noted that they did not have tutors and that cost was a likely reason why this was the case. The nearby and listening professor would pipe in and confirm that cost was indeed the issue and that the parents of my peers should be filling the role, entirely or at least mostly. It was then that I realized that I might be over-privileged and that my parents had simply decided that they could not or would not take time for me. However, I was still rather young at the time and I perhaps did not fully understand or know the context that was involved with what I was considering.
In my school days, I did not have many friends. Most kids seem to fear how I would respond if they were to approach and try to talk to me. The seemed to think I was arrogant or that I had an ego, which was really not true. However, that seems to have been the perception. My father was in the Board of Directors and the kids at the school knew this full well. My attendance was consistently in the fifty to…
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