I think that kind of pride is pointless and unproductive. I think it is right to be grateful to your ancestors for their achievements in ultimately giving you

I think that kind of pride is pointless and unproductive. I think it is right to be grateful to your ancestors for their achievements in ultimately giving you the life that you have. But proud? Hubris lies down that path. Re: luck, yes, it is absolutely luck that you were born to the parents you were born to, located in the place you were born in. I think you have the sense of the luck direction flipped from what GP meant. If you look at it from the perspective of your ancestors, then sure, your birth wasn't luck: it was a choice (or an accident, I suppose). But from the perspective of you, it's luck: you didn't get to choose the circumstances surrounding your birth. You got lucky in that sense; you could have instead had bad luck and been born on the streets in a third-world country to a drug-addicted single parent with no money and no prospects.