Advantage of Disadvantage

To varying degrees, we all have our disadvantages in life. We lament them, compare them, but they’re ours…

Sometimes there’s a particular disadvantage that means more to us than the rest. Good or bad, we cling to it. We claim it, wear it as a badge, play it as our trump card. For better or worse, it is our advantage that we don’t want to lose.

Within other communities, we spot disadvantages, too. When we see others cling to a disadvantage, wear it as a badge, play it as their trump card, do we get frustrated? Or angry? Do we feel a pang of envy and kind of wish we could claim it as our own?

This card is a space to claim your badge, and to long for another’s. Think deeply and honestly. Write what your “(dis)advantage” is and why it’s yours. Then write about a (dis)advantage that you do not have, but perhaps secretly envy, and why.

Note: Advantage of Disadvantage, was presented at Open Engagement on Friday, April 29, from noon to 2pm as part of Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure San Francisco Open Houses.