I am not a victim of life, I am an agent in it, and that means learning how to use what I have and mitigating the risk of what I lack, as well as possible to cope in what can be a highly challenging environment. Being a victim of it would mean saying I am unable to change or unable to find ways to counteract my shortfalls, or expect everyone else to make concessions for me.
A very realistic thing. I like that we are not victims of life. But the reality is, we are mostly losers in all aspects of life, although there are exceptions for some people. We should take control of our lives and make the journey of life easy instead of taking it too hard. We should take control of life as agents and not as victims, as you have beautifully analyzed.
We definitely are worse at more things than we are good. But I don't know about taking it easy. I don't feel that in the future I will be glad I had an easy life.