I feel like I can relate to many of the things here. It reminds me of the few times I got into enough of a pickle that I needed an advance on my salary. Just a

I feel like I can relate to many of the things here. It reminds me of the few times I got into enough of a pickle that I needed an advance on my salary. Just a lot of chickens that came home to roost. At the same time, I recognise my own privilege in that I managed to escape that and get to a place of comfort, and also that there were other things I was fortunate to not experience. To that extent, I could tell by my reaction sometimes that me-with-success was the one speaking, and not me-with-empathy.