This might be a weird question, but I've found that it has been occupying my mind a lot during these past 10 years or so, and would love to see what others think or feel about it.
First a short backstory.

I'm a white male, born in a country that is considered to be pretty well off and have some kind of respect internationally. I was raised in a working class environment, which by my countries standards is more of an exception than the norm. It wasn't until I started comparing my upbringing with others that I realized that we had it pretty scarce when growing up. Not in comparison with a third world country or so, but just compared to the majority of people in my country. By now I've made what we call a "Class-journey". Managed to educate myself for a lot of years, and found myself a nice job that I love.

I still feel ashamed, because I know there are so many people out there who doesn't even have the opportunity to get an education. I still feel guilty during discussions at work, because I know that my opinion (STILL, in 2021) gets valued slightly higher than those of other genders or nationalities. Because of me, being a white cis-male.

Doing my best to use that privilege to my advantage, trying every chance that I have to make the gap smaller in any way that I can, every day. But I still can't help but feel that many good things that happened to me in life is not because I put a lot of heart and effort in, but because I basically started the race halfway through the finish line.

Do any of you recognize this, and how do you cope with it?