
It gets harder and harder everyday to convince yourself you’re not insane. Like we are not only reading but seeing the depravity. It is repulsive. And it’s really hard to feel hope when you’re seeing things like that. I’m really really trying hard to keep myself alive and just lately I’ve been feeling like maybe I should stay here. But seeing and reading things like that are hard to stomach and making it harder to feel hope
Everything you do to help improve your community’s resilience and strengthen its social ties makes them weaker. Think about it, how were they able to traffic so many girls? Poverty, desperation, mental illness. How are they able to coerce us into working for this sick machine? Because we’re not locally self-sufficient. Don’t get me wrong, progress is painfully slow, but it’s much more bearable in community. Trust me, you will see.