Lily

Yes.

It was good.

Thank you.

I'm currently in Brooklyn, New York.

Yeah.

So my regret that I want to share is that for most of my young adult life, from kindergarten really straight through high school, is that I was painfully, painfully shy with really low self-confidence.

As I was thinking about this, I was remembering.

There were times where I just wanted to close my eyes and be invisible.

And I think that I didn't really come into my own until I got to college, where I found a really great group of friends, really was confident in expressing myself and just being myself.

And I think that...

You know, my regret is that I just really wish that I had taken a little bit more effort to build my confidence to fight this a little bit more because I worry about what opportunities I might have missed.

So ever since then, I feel like I try to counteract it now.

And if ever I meet someone who might be going through, especially if they're younger, like going through the same thing I did.

I try to make them feel seen and try to empathize with how they're feeling.

So that's kind of a takeaway, I guess, from that regret.

Absolutely.

But I think that even just prepping for this, I start to think about...

You know, there could have been more things I could have done, you know, if I just like put myself a little bit out there, if I didn't just try to hide so much.

I don't.

I think that what would have gone wrong if I... Oh, that's interesting.