Another powerful day
Another hard day but full of empowerment and feedback. My name is Sumaya and I am a girl from a refugee camp in Algeria. I have been living in the USA for three years by myself, all my family is back in Africa. Today I was feeling a little sad missing my home, my friends, and people who know me. Nevertheless, I should not feel sad, it was always just me and myself in those hard moments. I moved to board school when I was 12 years old, and now I’ve been in a boarding school for 14 years where I live in school and go home only for the summer. Those boarding schools are where my life was built. I have learned how to believe in myself and always find a solution to my problems instead of waiting for someone else’s advice. It is never easy to convince ourselves of doing or undoing things that we believe in or won’t, but sometimes it is good to step outside of ourselves and see the big picture. When we see ourselves from the outside we separate who we are from the problem we have. It gives us less feeling and emotions toward the problem, which will probably make us take better solutions. Usually, emotions come either as anger, fear, or sadness and probably will make us regret the taking solution. Yet, sometimes we should not regret some solution because some things just happen for a reason. For me crying is my best friend. It makes me get a bad feeling out without herding anybody, believing in myself because every tear makes me stronger, and lastly to hide my weakness from others especially my family because I need them to believe in me. Crying is never shameful, but falling is.
This is my first post. My English is not the best, but I want to improve myself on this journey.













