I just realized that literally I'm making a few hundred for sitting around here and eating caramel popcorn.
And as cool as that is, it also makes me realize how unfair life easily can be despite all I believe in working hard. Truth is, I'm lucky in many ways. My environment favored me, and virtually everything about myself from my sobriety to my language skills to my rationality was in some large way fostered by my environment.
I like to think that I am more responsible and more focused than many, and perhaps that is true; but at the same time, I don't think that I would have turned out this way had my environment been different. It does give my judgmental side some pause on occasion, especially when I realize there are some people who are genuinely working harder and not getting nearly as much as I am.