Are "rich kids" not so well-off these days? (girl, love)
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All the rich kids I know around me are depressed, seriously depressed.
It seems that they're finally beginning to realize that once they leave Mom&Dad they will have to start earning their own $.
But all of their lives they've lived in comfort and aren't really accustomed to the idea that luxury can't be taken for granted. Thus I've found that the rich kids I know at school are starting to report themselves as depressed as we near the end of high school.
Has life always been this way for (most) rich kids in history? Or is it because of the decline of family-oriented values and the rise of rampant individualism that now the rich kids must "go off" and basically fend for themselves regardless of their childhood background?
It seems to me that the increasing opportunity for social mobility (thus allowing poor, hard working, gifted students up into the stratosphere) has also made the rich kids' position more precarious and unstable to say the least.
I think, sometimes, rich parents give their kids a lot of things they don't need (money, designer clothes, nice cars, boob jobs) and not enough of what they do need (structure, guidance, emotional validation, TIME).
You can't lump every family together though. I know of several children of wealthy families who grew up to be healthy, well-adjusted adults.
And I know A LOT of kids who grew up poor, and ended up a mess.
I think someone needs to speak at high schools and really tell the kids that post HS, it is really a crap shot. The notion that the top ten kids in the class are going to become filthy rich is a joke. Even the fact that they'll be the most successful.
I'd say five got very average jobs (ex.teachers, factory workers) and the other five are either on their forth major in college or hoboing around trying to find themselves.
I never dreamed I would be one of the more, maybe most, successful grads of the class. Who knew? Amazing how things work out. Just a "B" student I was. That might have been a B- to
On the flip side, surprising how many of the "losers" of the school turned out just fine.
Its a crazy life we live.
On the subject of rich kids. There was a girl a year behind me that I had the hots for. Almost shocking how much she flaunted it. Her email address was something to the effect of ToRich@hotmail.com I kid you not! Of course I was 18 and when you're that age, looks rule period.
Well school let out and I was having what I thought was a good first conversation with her as we walked the half mile to the school parking lot (long walk). I had a little old s10 pickup back then and she actually said to me, you're going to need something a littler better than that! Yeah, whatever. I just forgot about her after that.
Saw her at a hometown gym about 8 years later. We locked eyes in the gym but no words were said. We just happened to leave the locker rooms at the same time and I walked out behind her. Her new Mustang was replaced with a 10yo honda civic. I kept on walking out the parking lot and was listening for her to pull out behind me and leave. She never did, waiting to see what I climbed into I guess. LOL, I turned around smiling and caught her looking, then climbed up into my $50,000 monster truck chrome rig.
Rich kids have the money but they may lack the love and affection they NEED from their parents.
And it's funny how a lot of rich kids end up drug additcts and drunkards like the rest of society, except that their money may make it easier for them to hide it or prolong it before everyone knows.
Money is an advantage to some degree, but it doesn't equal happiness, EVER.
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