If you ever find yourself thinking, “Easy for them, they have [insert advantage you lack]”, this post is for you.
You’re wrong.
It may or may not be easy for someone else to do what they do. You’re not them, so you can never know. But you’re wrong for letting yourself off the hook in pursuit of your own dreams because you lack what you imagine someone else has. You’re being a coward, a liar, or both.
Here’s the truth. If you had [insert advantage someone else has] you’d do worse with it than they do. Even if you could, getting something handed to you doesn’t help you learn how to use it to your benefit. In fact, it’s the opposite.
You can nitpick this post and think up all kinds of but-what-about’s and exceptions. Or you can just stop measuring and weighing yourself against others on the impossible pain-privilege meter and build your own life.
Oh, and for the record, if you had this blog you wouldn’t do it any better.