That must have been an interesting childhood to live thru the fall of a regime. It makes for deep topics to reflect on. I'm glad you shared it.

Obviously the environment we grow up and the talk we hear around the dinner table does shape our perspective and create self -limiting views, clearly the current political landscape would shape a young mind. Also the way we define rich as humans . Yes rich people get this or that, do this and that, how many generations of work towards a vision for it to be built? Someone had to start with nothing somewhere. True that stories and movies do a good job equating doing well in life with being mean for some reason. Most see rich as waking up one day and winning the lottery type money but many things that make us rich money can't buy. It's about a healthy balance between chasing the dream on horseback for the proverbial whit picket fence and learning to redefine what we value as rich.

You obviously did learn the value of human rich as far as things that matter in life and had a happy enough childhood and grew into a healthy self expressive adult that can find these self limitations and improve passed it. Growth. That's rich