Making It, Explained.

This is a thick term in my mental lexicon. Social scientists would probably equate my understanding of making it with resilience.

It's the term I use to signify:
(1) experiencing the trauma, oppression, or prolonged hardship that occupies most or all of a person's bandwidth (death and illness qualify; poverty qualifies; abusive relationships qualify...etc.)
(2) being relegated to the cultural margins (e.g., pressed by the circumstance such that exigency, rather than choice or preference, dictates decisions or courses of action)
(3) recovering and rejoining the ranks of the less-pressed

I like Earl Shoriss because he helps people make it. I like myself and my sisters because we are making it. Hmm.