Alot of good comments on the thread.
I think u had it worse than me, was also borned poor.
For me:
No money buy textbooks/uniform, no money pay for o lvls exams. Canned food were common. No money pay for utilities. Tertiary studies for me were all loan, need to work PT since young.
When both my parents were forced to retire, they literally had no savings and bodies were full of issues from working as hawker assistants/manual labour work. No insurances, at one point my mum didnt even renew her medishield. (Thankfully government added everyone back)
But you just got to keep grinding, im mid to late 30s now, net worth definitely lags behind my peers as the starting point is different and the burden of taking care of parents. But income wise, doing well, no edmw 20k, but enough for me to eat what i want, take grab whenever i want, buy whatever rubbish i want.
Even for my younger sister early 30s, she was not so motivated at studies, very introverted, but work in a company for close to 10 yrs already, monthly should have >5k alr.
There will be a period in life where u 怨天怨地， its normal. I had it too in my late 20s when my dad went for neck surgery after falling down, and 1 month later my mom went to replace both her knees. 2 elderly suddenly stop working with no savings and i was earning 3k a month back then.
Its how u recover from it. Once u recover from it, u will realised ur greatest strength over normal people is resilient, not how smart u are.
And i tot my grind was over, but married shortly more than a yr, ex wife wanted divorce 1 month after dad got diagnosed with cancer 3 yrs back. Then 1 month after my ex wife wanted out, dad passed on. Tots of ending it came. Again, 怨天怨地, but nah, im not going to crumble to it. Was in a wreck and like a zombie for the first 6 months? Work, workout go home emo.
Now still will emo, but like what others say, as long as u are healthy, its a blessing.
