Being born in a privileged condition, to me, means having necessary food, water, sanitation, shelter, clothing, education, safety, security and health care.
This is a point to ponder for the privileged:
Were you born in privileged conditions? Or perhaps in much better conditions than the fulfillment of basic needs? Have you ever wondered why? Why were you not born in abject poverty, in a land of famine and disease or no access to education or health care? Have you found an explanation and are you satisfied with why you were not under privileged?
One explanation that annoys me most is that of reincarnation - of the audacity to presume that you were a good person in your past life and hence are privileged or over-privileged in your current life. All this when you have no proof of the concept nor any idea of your past good deeds. What a self-righteous and selfish idea, no wonder it appeals to so many. As smooth as butter on the conscience, so easy, so convenient.
As a 'privileged' person, inequality by birth without explanation disturbs the conscience, no doubt. Instead of putting on it the salve of borrowed self-righteousness from an alleged past life, one can actually do something about it in their present and only known life.
In my view, the only reason you are blessed is so that you can be a blessing to someone else who needs it. The only real privilege of the 'haves' is to better, in some way, the lives of the 'have-nots' within their sphere of influence at least.
If it has been given to you undeserved, it is so that you may give in turn, undeserved.
To whom more is given, of them more is asked.
The privileged get cancer and other terminal diseases just like everyone else, at which point they think they must have done bad in the past life... God is at work to jar us all out of our complacencies and to invite us to discover Him as He is, to bring us into union with Himself.
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