The thing about growing up poor or lacking opportunities and choices is that a person could become resourceful to get out of it and rise from poverty or be consumed by it and surrender to poverty.
Some who grew up having things easily and being too sheltered from difficult situations and harsh realities in life (like you don’t always get what you want) might have reduced resilience, a narrow perspective in life, and difficulty adapting to change.
When “too sheltered” individuals encounter setbacks, they may quickly lose confidence to overcome hurdles. And instead of facing them, looking for solutions to get through them, they opt to do things that are comforting and predictable. The false sense of control lures them to think that feeling safe is always better.
Exploring new things seems unthinkable for them, and they sink into doing something they already know.
Do they have dreams of becoming better?
Sure, they do.
But they don’t act upon these dreams because exploring unfamiliar frontiers (which is often the case for dreaming about the best things in life) requires being uncomfortable with the unfamiliar; that it’s okay not to know about everything as long as one takes that first step.
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