"She lives in a world that validates someone else's struggles, but not her own."

"She lives in a world that validates someone else's struggles, but not her own."

I am often put on a pedestal for getting through my own set of struggles. They are the type that my society accepts as a "real" struggle, even if it's not being able to afford food. But there are girls I know who are very insecure because of the struggles they have and the struggles they don't. Neither of us are lacking the basic necessities of life, but my struggles are accepted by society as "real" and hers are dismissed.

People give me support because my stories is easier to understand and have become easier for me to tell, but her cries for help are perceived as attention-seeking.

My struggles gave me the opportunity to get out a lot of awkward immaturity out when I was still a kid (not all of them but a lot of it) so I can look forward knowing that I can handle the next set of tough stuff on the horizon.

But she was not tempered the way I was, so she can see struggles on the horizon and is facing some right now but cannot hold onto the confidence from past experience that she will be strong enough to get through them.

Everyone has a hard fight, but in my opinion between the two of us she got the short end of the stick.