Follow up to living in RV by necessity

westernrvparkowner wrote:

shelbyfv wrote:
Congrats to OP and thanks for posting the happy ending! Regarding the smug snipes, it's not uncommon for those of us who have it relatively easy in retirement to attribute our condition to our own genius financial planning, self restraint, etc, etc. The fact is luck plays the major part in how this aspect of our lives turns out. More specifically, the absence of bad luck. Illness, derailed family, an economy that changes on the whim of others.... These things can bite anyone who was not lucky enough to have been born into affluence.

I disagree that luck plays a major part in a person's success. While it is true that bad luck does befall a few, most of us make our own luck. You mention health, family, the economy as factors that change on a whim. I disagree. Your personal habits effect your health more than luck. Eat well, exercise, take reasonable precautions and your health will benefit. Family issues are often within your control. Divorce, alcoholism, drug addiction are all matters of choice, not luck. Live within your means and downturns in the economy are bumps in the road, not disasters of bad luck.
Successful people most often achieve that success through hard work, proper planning and making well thought out decisions. It is an insult to the millions upon millions of people who are financially successful to attribute that success to luck.

Spoken like one who's not been burned. It doesn't have to be YOUR health to trash YOUR plans. There are so many variables that play into life. You could do everything right but work for the wrong boss. So many things. Quit being smug.