Nearly everything is all about choice. Were you born without arms? I might argue that is a choice your soul made before you were born. Your soul wanted this learning experience. The longest lasting lessons are often the most difficult.
I also might argue no one choose to be born poor. However they stay poor because of their choices. Are you going to blame the government for lack of jobs? Then move to another country, or don’t. It’s a choice, not an easy one, but still a choice.
Were all your family and friends kill in a war? Then walk 300 miles to get to a stable area. It’s not easy, and you will need to find food along the way, and water, and safety, and other things. Learn how to get wild food and prepare it. It’s not an easy choice but it’s still a choice.
Did you get a genetic disease which will cut your life short? That’s not really a choice. But how you deal with it is. You can choose to focus on the positive in your short life, which is not easy. Or be miserable and make others all around you miserable. Which choice will be your lasting legacy?
Yet some people don’t understand they have choices, or they choose not to make a choice, because the other choice is harder. They choose not to think long term. Or they choose to become the victim, because it’s easy, and blame someone else for their own bad choices through bizarre pseudo-logic. But it’s still their choice.
Choices can be quite selfish or quite noble or simply a reality accepted by choice. Many elites in many cultures have through time shown us the power of selfish choice and entered into legend thereby. Who can in the West forget the "wrath of Achilles?". Choose wisely.