Your reply suggests that you are essentially in control of your life even if not over some random events here and there along the way.

Why would I not be? I have been fired from jobs, had to ask employers to lay me off because they could not afford to make payroll, been attacked by a lunatic in a bar who broke my leg in 4 places, run off the road on the expressway going 50 by a drunk driver and broke my other leg in 4 places, lived through my father committing suicide.

All gods children got problems. But I take responsibility for the state of my life.