Born on third base

After college, an influential person in my life shared a non-spiritual thought that has had a significant impact in my life. They said, there are two kinds of fortunate people: ones who are on third base and think they hit a triple and ones who are on third base and know that they were born there. I won't belabor the point, but one of the reasons we're pursuing adoption is that we know that we did nothing to deserve having two sets of parents who love us. We did nothing to be born in the US into comfortable/privileged circumstances. We did nothing to have parents who did whatever they could to give us a great chance at success in life. Lucy didn't do any of these things either (although some may say she didn't luck out on the parent front :)) Conversely, our child in Rwanda has done nothing to deserve spending their childhood in an orphanage. They did nothing to have parents who, for many reasons, can't take care of them.

We're pursuing adoption because we were both born on third base and we hope to use the privileges and responsibilities that come with that for the sake of others.