For me personally, I believe you should make more of an effort.
I believe this because I am one of those privileged types, I've been blest with a load of both external and internal qualities and circumstances which well... make me a lot luckier than most people I know.
Realizing this one evening was big for me. It made me realize that whilst most young people my age were struggling to pay the rent and other bills... I never had, I'm sitting on a small fortune and I'm surrounded by a group of people who love spoiling me rotten with food, clothes, money, etc. The kids struggling to pay the bills dreamt of all these wonderful things, wishing they had the time and the money. I had both and right now I was squandering them on pointless things and activities.
I felt sick knowing I had wasted most of my life in this fashion- that I could of been someone great and doing great things by now but instead I had blown that time on... crape.
So from that point one I made it a point to use my time constructively, to be more patient and generous with those who were always helping me/spoiling me, to do the best I could on a task when people asked me to help them out. I've been given a lot of resources... and I feel that I should give back, return the huge favours that the Universe has thrown my way all these years.
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