It is taking me half of forever to realize that life isn’t a meritocracy, that you *need* some lucky breaks on top of whatever hard work and practiced skill you can bring to living, innately related to how some of the most successful folks out there are total shit but who got the right lucky breaks. As nice as it is to be mostly blameless for not being a spectacular success, it goes hand-in-hand with a moral arc of the universe which doesn’t, in fact, necessarily bend towards justice.