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12:23am June 25, 2014
Anonymous asked: watching you fight through a harsh world is encouraging and amazing. thank you. you are real, a person, and incredibly (INCREDIBLY) strong given your situation. thank you. thank you for not being a hypocrite. thank you for being capable of rational and sceptical though, despite your situation. thank you for giving a positive example that makes live easier for people who had a though life (though not as though as yours). you are making a difference in this world.

I do what I have to do to survive.  I don’t know that I’m stronger than other people, and I don’t think I have it that much worse than a lot of people either.  I get nervous when people assume their lives haven’t been as tough as mine, because often they underestimate the obstacles they themselves are dealing with.  My life has been hard in many ways, but… that’s just life.  Many people have it much harder than me, and I… I guess I don’t have the expectation that life would be easy, for anyone, because for most people around the world life is full of difficulties and obstacles of all kinds, many of them severe and dangerous.  Sometimes it’s the expectation that the world doesn’t involve obstacles and suffering, that causes a lot of suffering… the belief that somehow life is supposed to be easy.  Of course it’s always good to work to make life easier for as many people as possible, but it’s also good not to expect life to be easy, because it’s not going to be, for most people.  It’s going to be hard.

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