If you started with a head start, run hard and hand some of it back. That’s the fair way to use it.

Advantages you did not earn are not something to apologize for, and they are not something to pretend away either. The honest response is to use them fully and then deliberately pass some of the benefit along. Guilt tends to freeze people, and usefulness does not.

Name one advantage you had that a friend did not: a connection, a quiet place to study, a parent who knew the system. Then find one specific way to lend it out this month, such as an introduction, a ride, or an hour explaining how something works.