Thank you for writing. Please don't be offended by what I am going to say.
So, what you write about yourself is only proving gp's point. Amount of social support you receive is on par with 1-st world countries. Which of course doesn't mean you are not poor and your situation isn't tough. In most ways, you are not priveleged.
It is just another dimension of poor that gp is talking about. Where watermelon is not a cost-effective measure, but a luxury.
Sounded strange and offensive, but your perspective sure sounds strange to others.
I'm not offended. I will note their remark was edited after I replied and I have no idea if you saw the original. My remark was not edited.
Sometimes, if you don't see the exchange "live" as it happens, you don't really know what people were reacting to and when people edit their own comments and don't annotate the edits as such, it can cause replies to come across weirdly and make no sense to people reading the comments later.
I feel like initial responses understood why I replied the way I did and later replies didn't. I can't help but suspect the unannotated edits are a factor in that shift.
I've hardly slept. I'm trying to step away from this discussion because I feel I've said plenty and there's probably little upside but lots of downside to me continuing to react to things on too little sleep etc.
So, what you write about yourself is only proving gp's point. Amount of social support you receive is on par with 1-st world countries. Which of course doesn't mean you are not poor and your situation isn't tough. In most ways, you are not priveleged.
It is just another dimension of poor that gp is talking about. Where watermelon is not a cost-effective measure, but a luxury.
Sounded strange and offensive, but your perspective sure sounds strange to others.