Why am I doing this? Life has been unfair so far so I, Souheil am trying to make a change by writing a blog to help me understand myself and why life is going the way it is.

When people talk about chasing the “American Dream,” they rarely imagine it starting on a small, overcrowded boat in the middle of the ocean. But for Souheil, a 19-year-old refugee, that’s exactly where his journey began—a desperate leap toward survival that turned into a 68-day nightmare lost at sea.