A man raised in poverty describes the shame of looking poor and lacking connections, which left him depressed until his thirties. His faith in God became the turning point, giving him a sense of worth that society wouldn't grant him.
How did I navigate myself from those struggles? Continuing to seek the truth and make the most of whatever I did have because I felt like it's what I've always had to do anyways as a young person growing up with a parent in a low-income type of environment, and, but I had life. I may have been walking around with holes in my pants and short, like flooded pants and hair undone and looked down on in mainstream society as someone who may have been a bit unkempt or didn't know the right ways to do certain things, didn't have the quote unquote right type of connections, et cetera. The way that I have navigated my struggle, even though I was very sad for a very long time until I was about 30, was my faith that the Almighty valued me. If no one else did, if this world did not, that I had value in my creator's sight.
