I shouldn't be alive today.
I should have been killed by the bomb that hit the pool in Damascus.
I should have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea.
I should have been one of the many faceless refugees who died along the way.
But I am here.
Alive.
Because I kept moving.
So many things tried to stop me.
To break me.
So many times something whispered,
”This. Now this will defeat you.”
But I kept moving.
Moving as I left my family behind.
Moving through the fear when I was hiding in the forest.
Moving through the sea,
pulling a boat through the waves.
And now, when my exhaustion rises,
I remember.
And my strength just rises higher.
It says, “Greater things than this
have tired to stop you.”
And I keep moving.
SUPER: Turn your pain into strength.
SUPER: Yusra Mardini
SUPER: I will.