Fortunate

It's always felt strange to me when someone says they're proud to be an American. Proud? You didn't accomplish anything to be proud of. You didn't achieve this status through hard work and determination. You just happen to be born here. You could have just as easily been Peruvian. I tell you one thing I do feel; lucky. Think of all the hardship a young child in Africa has to endure just by being unlucky enough to have been born there.