Malala Yousafzai
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I'm working on women's sports.
I published a new memoir.
And I'm not scared of dogs anymore.
Yeah, so so much has changed in my life.
Yes.
How have you been?
Yeah, you know, I thought I was supposed to live my life a certain way.
It's, you know, it's quite rare to be called a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and an education activist when you are still a teenager.
And I thought it means that I have to live a perfect life now.
I have to be a perfect daughter, a perfect person.
I cannot get anything wrong.
and that I'm supposed to know the answer to everything in my life, that I can't make mistakes.
But I realized that, you know, that was not the true me, that I didn't have to sacrifice friendship and so much of my normal life.
So when I went to college, that's when I changed everything.
Because at school, you know, at this high school in the UK, I struggled to make friends.
By the end of my high school, I had only made one friend, and that's because she fell out with her best friend.
I was brought to the UK for my treatment, and then I had to adjust to a new life.
So in college, I said, you know what?
I want to do this differently.
I signed up for every club and every society because I wanted to meet as many students as possible so that I could make some friends.