Advantage or Disadvantage?

I was thinking about the royal family the other day, especially thinking of the children of the Prince and Princess of Wales and how their mother has been so poorly that she was in hospital for quite some weeks.  I trust that she will recover soon when she is back at home with her family.

Now sickness happens to us all (if you’ve watched the episode of Bluey where they wear purple pants you’ll know what that means).  Nobody is immune, not even the royal family.  No, I don’t want to know what she was poorly with but I can tell you from personal experience it’s not fun to be sick in hospital, away from your family.

I have always felt somewhat for children of the rich and famous.  There are, of course, many benefits – big home, large grounds, maybe horses as well as dogs, great schools etc.  But it does NOT provide for the time you don’t have with your parents because they are too busy doing whatever it is their job is, you always feel under scrutiny and your playmates not necessarily handpicked as such, but certainly restricted.

And then I started to think of people like you and I.  We ALL were born with certain advantages and disadvantages no matter WHO we or our parents were.  When you look back through history you see many poor people growing to become men of science, doctors of the church, cardinals, go to university, become members of parliament, movie stars, Michelin starred chefs, whatever they want to be.

You see, the advantages or disadvantages are what you make them.  Obviously you can’t do something like change your height, or get a wheelchair through certain doorways and things like that.  But there ARE some that you can overcome.  What you make of yourself in the end is down to YOU and the choices you make either in spite of or because of, the advantages or disadvantages you experience.