The Privileged Paradox
I've come to realize that there's this hate society has for people who have life on easy mode, and by easy mode I mean people who were born into wealth and didn't have to work a day in their life to get anything they want.
They make it look like a bad thing, almost as if there is honour in being poor. For some reason they believe that having everything you want makes you skip through some stages of life that are meant to humble you and teach you some lessons that are better experienced and not taught. Yet, if you asked any one of those people if they wished that they were born into a rich family, their answer would all be the same, yes.
This is why I get irritated whenever I see people mocking or bad mouthing popular Nigerian musician, Davido, simply because his dad is rich and he basically had it easy going into the music industry, although I don't even think that is entirely true. Because if you ask me, having the money is one thing, having a successful music career is another thing but I digress..
Today's contest topic is one that I've thought about a couple of times in the past and this is mainly due to some of the movies I've seen. But before I get into it, I know the contest makes use of the word "Challenges" and not "money or riches" but for the sake of this post, I'm assuming that being able to take away your kids challenges also basically means being rich, so I will be focused on that.
In those movies, the rich kid is also always seen as the spoilt brat because he or she gets whatever they want without even having to lift a finger. Some of them don't even know how to do their laundries and are also always rude to people they feel are "below" them.
Now, while that may be true for some people, it isn't always true for every rich kid out there. There are some of them who although had those same benefits of being the kids from a rich family, and yet they're still disciplined and respectful.
And that is because being respectful and disciplined absolutely has nothing to do with how much you have in your bank account, it's a character thing and not something that can be bought. Because if we went with the rich people are rude kinda mentality, then the nicest people on earth should be the poor ones, yet I've seen people who are very broke (if not poor) with the most nastiest kind of behaviour in this world.
So yeah, if the one thing having challenges brings to the table is teaching you how to be humble in the end or how to have a good behaviour, I can always teach that to my kids without having to be poor. Besides, they are a lot of benefits that comes with being rich too, we just don't know it because we're not rich and I'm not talking about the special privileges.
With all that said, my answer to the question asked is yes. If I have the opportunity to make life as easy as it can get for my kids, I would do it. After all it's my job as their father to help them, although I might let them struggle for some things themselves just for the fun of it.