I find it far too easy to act completely differently to them for it to come down to pure genetics

Genetics aren't all or nothing. They're just predispositions. For example, some people are more easily addicted than others. Obviously, you're not going to be addicted if you're not around addictive substances though.

it still amazes me how much people hate me for how I acted like a decade ago, but I think I’m getting there.

I have the opposite problem. I've always acted the exact way I wanted, annoying people, and it amazes me that people never hated me for it.

Agreed that the universe doesn’t care. I’ve had terrible “luck” my whole life.

I know it's not solace at all, but in the grand scheme of things, anyone growing up in the first world has at least extraordinary luck when it comes to material comforts. How little this matters in the end is reflected in the rates of psychological issues in the West vs. others places.

I try not to judge arbitrary groups of people by their immutable characteristics. I used to. Not anymore.

Except leftists. Fuck leftists. And like, “drag queen story time” exponents. They can definitely rot.

Fortunately, that is not immutable. At least by Murican standards, I considered myself on the left before they went completely insane around 2014.