Our house is filling with various gadgets, tools and items for the road trip. It will have to be organized and consolidated to fit into a single vehicle, but right now it’s just strewn everywhere.

A good sight, though. A new phase of life and the sort of thing most people wish they could do but do little to make it happen.

Why do people have such a problem believing that luck is a key part of their success? I am fairly successful and I know that luck is responsible for nearly all of my success: luck being born white in a society where whiteness is often seen as automatically better; luck in choosing to go into IT rather than journalism; luck in having enough money to do also-lucky things in the stock market at the right time; luck in being born able-bodied and with the right mind to deal with my rather neglectful upbringing.

There is so much more that could be added. Most of what allowed me to be where I am is nothing more than a roll of the dice, especially if you view it from the philosophical perspective of the Rawlsian veil of ignorance.

Do I think I deserve the things I have? “Deserve” is the wrong word. It’s a reactionary word. I think everyone deserves every chance at a happy and fulfilling life, not some sparse 1% at the top hoarding all resources relentlessly while the rest are immiserated.

Getting there is the problem.