Every so often I see people on here mention 'ungratefulness' because we're so lucky to be in first world nations as a sort of appeal to the amount of suffering in the world which leads me to think about how flawed that line of criticism is. I couldn't have just as easily been some slumdweller or a starving nigger in Africa, could I? For me, it makes no sense. I was always going to be me, because I'm here. A long line of people lived and died so I could be born. Me. How could I have been someone else if I'm currently in existence? I was born because of that unspeakably large amount of people, and the only way I wouldn't be was if they weren't either, because that's just how it is.