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Even the idea that hardship toughens you is something that I hate. Hardship, the one that comes from being caged by so many circumstances: race, class, location, the general misfortune of being part of group that a society detests, is suffering. It diminishes your possibilities.
You're growing up and while other kids are learning different languages, instruments, and taking vacations around the world, you're in a school with 1/4th of the resource, working twice as hard, just to probably end up dying in the same class and place you were born in.
For every individual who makes it to the other side, is an incredible number of others who drowned trying. And it's not a testament to their character that they didn't make it. Because they were tossed in that water and kept there by forces bigger than them.
I hate the heroic story. I hate those stupid feel-good videos. I hate how the language of resilience and survival have been used to justify such an unfair world as if we're not walking in the middle of a disaster.
