Malala Yousafzai

I have never seen boys my age.

I have never, you know, been away from my parents or lived on my own.

I can decide.

I can go to a Diwali party.

I can stay up late at 3 a.m.

And, you know, like my parents would not know about this.

And, you know, I could sign up for rowing or I could go to the aerobics 80s themed party.

Any of that.

We could do all of that.

I was somehow feeling that I was reliving all the missed years of my childhood because of the activism that I had to take from such a young age that I missed.

You know, I think about the roof climbing experience oftentimes because that was offered to me by a stranger at college who told me that there is this crazy thing that only cool college students do.

And he offered it to me and I said, OK, I'll see you at midnight.

I told my security, like, I'm done for the day and you guys can go to sleep.

Yeah, I mean, it was awkward to have like guys following you.

But at the same time, it just helped me have the opportunity to experience these things and not be worried about safety and security.

So yeah, but for that night, the roof climbing night, I told them, I think I'm going to be safe on my own.

I said, you guys can go to bed.

So it's midnight.

I follow the stranger.

We go up to the fourth floor of the building and there's a small window in this room.