One of my friends wondered why people who no one believes in have an "easier" time believing in themselves than people who everyone else believes in. I wonder why she thinks that.
That prompted me to muse that people who no one believes in have had to fight for their belief in oneself whereas people who others believe in haven't had to. This apparently offended on of my friend's friends and she claims that people with great support systems have to fight as hard.
While I conceded that I can't understand what someone with a different life has had to go through, I still feel kind of insulted by this. It's kind of like telling me that all that I have faced (and faced alone) is as easy as someone who hasn't had to go through that stuff. At the same time though, I am wary of saying anything that could possible offend this stranger because I don't want to deal with her.
Now, my mind is full of thoughts on how certain life experiences can make things seem easy in comparison and how it may give someone an edge because they already know they can make it.
I was speaking to someone the other week who only knows what has happened in the past few years of my life. They expressed surprise that I was able to make it and claimed they hadn't thought I could. It's ego boosting, but is weird to me. What I have accomplished in the past few years was easy compared to the years before that.
Sorry I ramble about stuff no one cares about.
