No reason to be ashamed of luck. I feel tremendously lucky that I have enough brain power to be a decent programmer and engineer. This has helped me to recover

No reason to be ashamed of luck. I feel tremendously lucky that I have enough brain power to be a decent programmer and engineer. This has helped me to recover from bouts of massive depression. There were years where I basically dropped out life but once things got better I was able to find well paying jobs pretty easily. I feel I am very lucky to have that fallback that a lot of other people don’t have. I was not so lucky that somehow I never seem to be able to improve my social skills much. I think a lot of life is luck and it’s ok to admit that. I hate it when people who got lucky reject that idea and try to make you believe that it’s all hard work and if other people only worked hard they could achieve the same. I know enough people who simply don’t have the talent to do what I can do and there are plenty of things I can’t do no matter how hard I work. I am also lucky that I have decent looks so it’s not too hard to find a partner despite my often painful shyness and awkwardness. Other people aren’t that lucky.