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How would you feel if you learned that your parents were secretly rich and had never told you? Why would you feel that way?
Just imagine me currently thinking to myself that if my dad was alive, I wouldn't be going through so much pain, stress, and challenges as I am going especially financially, and imagine my reaction that my parents or dad was rich enough to have eased me with this stress and decided to hide it reasons best known to him, and let me go through this daily thinking about my life and how I could make it better for myself and family, thinking about the future and what it holds for me especially financially, then I hope the contest prompt question can happen to me now, even though it is just a thought and assumption.
When I saw this particular prompt, I started laughing and imagining myself at this present stage in life and the challenges I am facing that most times make me start wondering if "Miracle can not just happen in my life and that of my family, like I have heard happen to others" and imagine after going through this challenges, stagnation and stress, pain and lack only to realize one day that my parents are or were secretly rich and never told me or even at a time or one point in time of my life use their finances to ease me of the stress, responsibilities, pains, and challenges that come with being poor.
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Thinking about it now, at this present stage, and imagining my reactions towards getting to know the news after the pain, I am not sure if I would be able to hold back my anger. I mean, I would feel betrayed and used and especially begin to not trust them because if they could hold back such from me even when they saw me working tooth and nail to make a living and get myself doing something they never cared to help since they could.
Let's assume that they decided to cover up that truth about them because they didn't want me or my siblings to misuse the privilege, but after seeing me go through hell in life, I believe they could at one point in my life helped me financially at a particular stage of my life maybe anonymously without me getting to know it was them who helped me than keeping quiet and watch me pass through hell and brimstone, I am not sure I am going to forgive them anytime soon.
I know it does not change the fact that the money would still be ours but watching me suffer and not thinking about helping when they could, could make me more heartbroken, maybe at a point, I could disrespect them at a point, because of how pained, betrayed and hurt I was and I am surely going let them know and show my displeasure about them hiding such information or at least not helping me when I needed help.
It doesn't mean, I would hate them because of course they had their reasons but at least helping me when they saw me struggling, I am not hurt because they hid such a secret away from me, I am hurt that they didn't help me or look for a way to help me when they saw me facing so many challenges and losing myself in the process.
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