Grow

If you have been given a plate full of injustice,

use it to grow empathy

If you have been heaped upon with pain,

use it to grow compassion

If you have been drowned in reasons to fear,

use it to grow courage

What we are given is often unfair,

but not one of us has a single thing

that did not grow from what we have been given

You are not a hero for having suffered

You are a hero for having grown.

— Nightbirde