People Who Grew up Rich, When Did You Realize You Were Living in a Bubble? | People Stories #21

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[nicolecourtney]

The 13 year old that helped thw mom of his friend to get milk for the toddler melted my heart because i have been in her shoes.

[warmweeniesdoxiesweaters]

When I think back I remember my best friends Mom would feed me. All the bacon I wanted, as much milk as I wanted etc. I now see what she was doing and I wish she was still around as I want to go hug her. She knew something I didn't even realize, I was hungry... not starving exactly, just hungry and lots of "real" food was so very good and exotic.

[WadelDee]

When I told a friend what city I live in he said he's been there before and it looked and smelled like a dumpster. I was super surprised. My house is beautiful, my garden is beautiful, but, turns out the rest of the city is filled with garbage everywhere! I have so many questions now!

[WadelDee]

I remember when I first met a friend in a multi-story building. I could understand that the whole building would have been too much for them, but only a single floor? I couldn't fathom how any family could live like that! Years later, I found out that in America, owning a home is considered a luxury, while most people struggle even finding a floor to rent!

[totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi]

When I was at a store with my friends and one of them was worried about being unable to afford what we had picked out for her. I hadn’t ever thought about affording clothes before. I talked to her about it and apparently neither of us knew the other one’s wealth level. I ended up paying for her stuff to be nice.

[WadelDee]

I remember my surprise when I found out that the amount of people in the world considered poor is more than 50%!

[f.t.cnation]

The trailer park one got me. And sometimes i think we all need a lesson on how lucky we are.

[nicolecourtney]

I am an orphan so i basically lived off of anyone willing to let me stay with them.
When i was 16 i needed a new place to stay so i went to my cousins who had 5 kids and offered to ya know babysit and clean as my rent since i worked at subway and couldn't afford much.
One day when i got home her kids drug me out and begged me to take them to taco bell across the street. So i did and we all got dollar menu burritos. That made me realise how poor we ALL were.
Now i live with my husband and he pays for everything including things for the kids that i have who aren't bio his. He has always lived upper middle class and i haven't ever had this MUCH LOVE and support. I feel lile i can keep him grounded with money and he can make me feel like a Queen sometimes.
That's my story
*and YES those kids are grown now and doing better ftmp.

[theawhitaker]

My friend was shocked to find out that when I’m allowed to drive, I’ll have to buy my own car and not have my parents buy things like that for me

[rachelgreen]

I remember having 1 to 2 weeks a month with just no food and a few times the heat and electricity shutting down growing up.. My parent just started a new well paying job this last year and I myself has a over minimum wage job so it's gotten better

[huixinnyyy]

I grew up a little on the poorer side, but we managed. My mom was a single mother supporting my sister and I, and my dad forgot to pay his child support most months. A few years ago back in like fourth grade, my parents got back together and have been up to now, I’m going into ninth grade now. Even though both my parents grew up really poor, my dad worked hard enough to the point now that he has a pretty large amount of money. He doesn’t spend it on vacations and stuff tho. Lately, things have been happening and my parents are gonna split again. I’m scared because I don’t want to give up my friends again for the seventh time and start all over again. I’m scared that I won’t be able to be successful in my life. I’m an all honors student and my mom told me that I won’t be able to go to college. We’re moving back to New York in a few days, and I’ve always had big dreams for the future. I just don’t know what to do. I feel like if everything have come to this, and if I won’t ever be successful, then what’s the point anymore? It’ll be easier to die now and not suffer anymore. I just don’t know what to do anymore and needed a place to vent. If you’re still here, thanks for reading I guess.

[WadelDee]

Our family of 4 people has 3 fridges in the house and they are always so full that it's difficult to cram more into it. It's so full that we can't keep track of what we have. One time, I found a pizza that was 10 years old but our fridges are better than normal fridges (judging by how long unfreezing takes vs. how long their packages say it takes) so nothing ever gets spoiled. The pizza was still edible. Whenever it's my time to cook, everyone always expects me to say what I need so they will buy it and I will cook it. But I never say anything because our fridges are so full that I'll just take something from there. Despite my frequent expanations, my father buys me something to cook anyway and my mother thinks I'm not self-reliant enough because I didn't say what I need. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the supermarkets were empty so I expected our fridges to become at least a little bit emptier. But they were completely unaffected, still as full as ever! I don't need to compare myself to any other family to know just how ridiculous this is!

[WadelDee]

I had the exact opposite feeling:
A fridge keeps your food cold, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Feeding any thing with electricity on a 24-hour basis seemed to me to be so special and even energy-wasteful that I was simply astonished. Not that such a thing existed in my home but that such a thing even existed, at all!
I've never met anyone who doesn't have a fridge. I even heard that people in very poor countries have fridges. But I still can't shake the feeling that this is not to be taken for granted!

[SufferingSuccotash]

I'm guessing it's when talking about your weekend makes people mad

[chrishawking]

It's exactly cuz of reasons like this as to why I would wait to have kids but at the same time whenever the time comes to raise children I would want them to always Be respectful compassionate humble but the same time I would never want someone to be unrealistic or delusional about anything or anyone including themselves

[zombiegirlfanter]

I was raised poor. My grandparents raised me until my grandfather died. I might have not had anything, but I was rich by being loved.

[michaelgunnels]

As a kid who lived in southern California where you know a upper class or rich families which 2 of my friends were in that boat they never shown spoiled and understood that not everyone has a big house with a pool or can afford different trips (none that I was aware of from them) and they went to the same school with me saw me as a friend and not a bother

[Cornerstanding]

Who are all these people on our plane?! Geeze how the 1% live. Dang!

[krol]

I grew up very poor in trailer parks with no father and a horrible mother who lived off the money of criminal bfs and endured a lot of mental and verbal abuse and have some truamatic triggers now and all that. When i was 8 i was finally technically adopted by my guardians and hsve been living with them since and they are much better caretakers and id ssy higher middle class so technically rich compared to what i used to be. Im now 17 and thankful for them very much understandably.

[jinny]

Ive never seen a real life maid, I wonder how many people actually have them. I don't know that many rich people but maids and stuff just seems like a thing in movies