I never claimed I missed out as a kid. Maybe socially, but aside from being picked on and having no friends I had a comfortable childhood.
But I think you're taking those photos out of context. I'm not rich. At all. I'm not poor. But I'm definitely not rich.
My parents scraped together and paid to fly out to take their kids to disney world in 05. My mom went there in 94 with her sister's family, my aunt who recently passed away, and she wanted to take her own kids. So they saved up and took us there. For a whole week! Or, at least that was the plan. Her mother suddenly and unexpectedly fell ill and died. Really the only part of that vacation I remember clearly was my mom crying on a bench in disney. I know that makes me seem like a spoiled kid, but it was pretty heart breaking.
Fastforward to 2013, my bro is a smart kid and he's going to go to university. The student loan doesn't cover all costs, so my parents need to take out a loan. They realise that cash is about to become a lot tighter, so they see this loan as the perfect opportunity to revisit disney world cuz my mom's memory of the place was tarnished by the death of her mother.
I appreciate my parents for that. If I'm brutally honest, I got a heap of social troubles, no friends etc. But if it weren't for my mom, I would've offed myself. And she's the only recent I refuse to do it now. I refuse to break her heart.