You are highly privileged. Your nation of origin, ethnicity, gender, religious background, sexual orientation, and your familys socio-economic status have provided you with huge advantages that you rarely notice. You are the recipient of constant and innumerable small benefits throughout your daily life that most people do not get, which all add up to you having a much easier time advancing in your education, career, and life goals than others.
You have never had to worry about where you next meal would come from, or whether there would be clean water for you to drink and bathe in. You do not get pulled over by police or stopped and frisked on the street based on how you look. You do not get sexually harrassed and assaulted by strangers on a daily basis. You do not receive death threats, rape threats, or unwanted sexual advances when you speak your opinions online.
The vast majority of things that you believe you achieved on your own, came about primarily because other people gave you everything necessary and allowed you the opportunity. There are millions of people in the world who are smarter than you, more skilled than you, and better than you are at everything you do; but most of them never have the opportunity to demonstrate it because of the circumstances of their birth and the innate prejudices that permeate our world. You are the beneficiary of the inequality that leads to their misfortune.
Your life is pretty great, and it is all due to luck and happenstance.
Howd I do?
