This is one of the things I’ve had a hard time understanding and getting used to growing up. We live in such different realities. If you’ve always lived in a safe and secure world, with a house and money, a mother and a father, children and a husband, a social safety net, access to healthcare, without war—the list can get quite long—then it seems to be so hard to understand and see things from the perspective of someone living in a much harder and more dangerous reality.
