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The white fog is the confusion, uncertainty, stress and pressure, and feeling like “I am not enough” that can happen when you grow up with resources and safety. I grew up in a white fog. The image in my head about how my life would happen was clear and positive. I’d go to school, then after high school would come college and all the fun, and after college would be working at a job and having a good life. It wasn’t anything anyone ever said to me, it was just an assumption (probably from the school I went to and the people I knew) in my mental image of how life worked. Just to draw a contrast for you, there is a different image for my friends Oliver and Esteban. It’s not a given that they’ll be around when they're 20. If they finish 8th grade, aren’t in a gang, and have parents it’d be a big deal. If they finished high school and stayed out of jail, it’d be absolutely amazing. And going to college for them would be defying the odds and writing one of those