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you do not know me...
Because I am yet to see what does luck have to do with being born in a third world country, to an alcoholic mother and drunk abusive father? To be sexually abused as a child, to survive a moribund communism in which at any time someone could pick up those you love from your home and you'd never see them again, to the little and bad food on food cards and 6 hours of electricity and 8 hours of running water per day. Did luck take me out? Nope, I did it myself, and with work. Luck had nothing to do with it.
Nothing. And sure as hell does not even begin to par with being born in a rich country... but that is another story.
I never claimed to be in any way "better than you". First, because i do not KNOW you, and I refuse to operate on assumptions.
But I will not shut up because the chip on anyone's shoulder, and if you expect validation from me, or from anyone else, for your choices... that is your problem. Neither myself nor anyone else owes you that validation, and that is, as far as I am concerned, the end of it.
Do not expect me to be quiet about my achievements, such as they are- not much in the context and a lot less than what I wanted them to be, because they might upset you or anyone else. I am not in the business of protecting anyone's sensitivities, and I do not expect anyone to protect mine.