Oh now, bobsal from Baby DU, marble falls from Skins's island, is signaling his virtue by expressing his "survivor's guilt."
Survivor guilt is a mental condition that occurs when a person believes they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not, often feeling self-guilt.
I could never understand this myself, and alas it appears prominent among survivors of combat in wars.
Despite that most like to think otherwise, life is random chance, outside of our control.
One just rolls with the punches.
Of course the opposite has happened too, but in this life there's been many times I've been extraordinarily lucky while just about everybody else hasn't. Since such luck was just by chance, I never felt guilty about it.
To me, "survivor's guilt" would be valid only in those instances where one
purposely and
deliberately manipulates things that save one's own life at the cost of others' lives.
Purposely and
deliberately.
If it happens by sheer chance or accident, no need for any sense of guilt.
But some people, primitives, want to feel badly no matter what.