Apology

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I went to the presentation on Darfur at OSU. The speaker was a young and petite african-american woman who spoke with an accent. She was also a survivor of Rwanda genocide that happened 13 years ago. Her grandmother was killed the first day from a bullet in her head. Her parents were murdered too. So were her aunts and uncles. Friends and cousins

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In part you're right. That woman lived through so much, and I'm sure more than she spoke about, that it seems silly to worry about our own lives.
But I've noticed that constantly comparing your life to other, harsher (or easier) lives doesn't work out too well. Same with problems. Your problems are your own, and maybe on the global scale, they're pretty small. But to you they are stressful, and that's what matters.
Putting your life in prospective isn't bad. Just keep a healthy attitude about it. Your life is important too, and it isn't made less so by the fact that it's not full of life and danger.
Or, at least, that's what I'm thinkin'.
Where are you going to college? I'm going to miss you. You actually write about things.