Malala Yousafzai

To have friends.

To go to McDonald's.

And to be loved.

And to be able to express myself.

And to try new things.

But somehow, I thought that...

maybe because I'm supposed to live this activist life, it means sacrificing.

It's one or the other.

It's one or the other.

And I was like, okay, you know, of course, like I'm sad and I don't feel like myself.

You were lonely, right?

But I thought, okay, this is how it's supposed to be.

No, I think when you are supposed to be this strong, brave, courageous girl, you feel you cannot complain about not having friends or like, you know, crying alone in the bathroom to get over this or feel like, oh, I wish like more people could talk to me in the school dining hall.

No, I never really shared it with my parents.

I would just go home and...

talk to my best friend in Pakistan.

I would ask her about everything that was happening, you know, with, in our neighborhood, with our friends and how her studies were going and just try to like reconnect with my old life.

And I knew like, that's just not a reality.

I'm not there, but I used to just imagine myself being there and imagine what life would have been like if I were there.

So I like deep inside, I just, I wanted, I wanted to, to make friends and just know like what,