Short Story: Pre-programmed

I have this theory that there are two types of people—those preprogrammed to have good fortune and excellent genetic makeup. And those like me, who draw a short stick always in the lottery, whose body is a minefield to be navigated and negotiated, and who is a test to the point of the whole existence. So years, I have tried to fight to get to the other side, and for years, I thought my theory to be rumblings of the self-pitying me. I encouraged myself to stop trying to see past the surface into ...